FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Although financial planners are often told it is cheaper to be the authorised representative of a major licensee, that is not necessarily the case, according to Pathway L...

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Financial planning

A new paper suggests financial planners need to rethink what drives client risk tolerance....

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Financial planning

Financial planners have welcomed St John report recommendations suggesting product issuers accept greater responsibility. ...

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Financial planning

The same regulator critical of financial planner responses in a shadow shopping exercise has turned in a 100 per cent fail in responding to parliamentary questions on tim...

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Financial planning

A recent newspaper advertisement that equates financial planning with the sale of financial products misunderstands the role of advisers, says AFA chief executive Richard...

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Financial planning

The minimum training requirements for financial planners providing advice on carbon financial products has been finalised by ASIC....

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Funds management

The wealth management industry is failing to properly educate retirees about longevity risk and investment risk, according to a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers...

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Superannuation

Financial planners as well as super funds targeting clients have to develop a new holistic model of advice to attract the younger generation of superannuation asset holde...

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Financial planning

ASIC has rapped 21 financial services licensees across the knuckles for incorrectly marketing themselves as 'independent'....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers must develop a more complex toolset to provide advice, according to senior Milliman consultants who criticised the simplistic advice models being used ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has welcomed the announcement by Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury exempting financial planners from the taxation services regime unti...

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Superannuation

The tendency of independent SMSF clients to treat their financial planner as a consultant rather than a trusted adviser and only seek advice about some issues could cause...

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Superannuation

Superannuation is usually the biggest talking point for most advisers during tax season. Concessional contribution caps will certainly be top of mind this year given the ...

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Editorial

If the financial planning industry has learnt one lesson from the FOFA process, it is the vital importance of political activism, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

Future2 seeks financial planner support in identifying organisations to benefit from grants....

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