FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Policy & Regulation

Planners receiving remuneration based on clients’ gearing instalments may have to adjust pre-FOFA....

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Editorial

ASIC was right when it issued a warning to financial services licensees to ensure they have “robust recruitment processes” in place when appointing people who have previo...

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Policy & Regulation

Govt appears unmoved by industry efforts to extract a further extension of the TASA arrangements....

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Funds management

The campaign by Colonial First State (CFS) to promote its reputation as a leading investment house with specialist capabilities using 'The Investment Specialist Series’ h...

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Financial planning

A REST Industry Super survey has found that although Gen Ys need help with their savings, many are reluctant to seek out professional advice....

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Funds management

BT Life's Michael Baragwanath has been named this year’s Money Management BDM of the Year. ...

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Superannuation

Despite comments by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard some weeks ago that “everything was back on the table” when it came to superannuation, the financial services industr...

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Financial planning

The inclusion of specific funding for the Tax Practitioners Board sees the FPA writing to the Government for another extension....

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Funds management

Structured products such as derivatives have yet to recover from recent market impacts with the sector having been reduced from $4 billion to $1 billion in recent years d...

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Superannuation

The FPA is hoping for minimal change around super taxes in this evening’s Budget. ...

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Funds management

Bad news and poor perception mask opportunities for returns from emerging markets...

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Editorial

An important statistical snippet came to light during the hearings into legally enshrining the terms ‘financial planner/adviser’ – nearly 50 per cent of planners/advisers...

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Superannuation

New white paper points to planning opportunities and a problematic vertically-integrated model....

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Superannuation

If the Government’s super tax changes ever make it into law, they are likely to create planning opportunities....

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Financial planning

It may have been more than a year since the Industry Super Network (ISN) toned down its television advertising impacting financial planners, but they continue to suffer a...

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