"FINANCIAL PLANNING"

Financial planning

FOS personnel dominate CommInsure’s Claims Review Panel while ASIC is proving integral to the appointment of an independent expert to review denied claims....

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Financial planning

Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is arguing that TTR arrangements should be counted as retirement income....

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Financial planning

Will the major institutions offering both both product and advice remain in wealth management in the face of new technology and lack-lustre balance sheets?...

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Financial planning

Former Cooper Review chairman and Challenger executive, Jeremy Cooper says retirees are being let down by retirement calculators utilising long-term average returns....

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Policy & Regulation

Money Management and Financial Express launch new investment resource for planners and self-directed investors - the Money Management Investment Centre....

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Financial planning

The major banks, AMP and IOOF have been singled out as licensees for accountants to avoid if they have an eye to issues such as succession planning....

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Accounting

Digital disruption will compel accountants away from ‘hackwork” and towards financial planning, according to CPA, Greg Holman....

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Financial planning

The FPA has launched a national campaign backing the value of the Certified Financial Planning designation. ...

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Superannuation

A tribunal decision has revealed that superannuation fund members are still waiting for money from illiquid super fund investments seven years after the GFC....

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Financial planning

Retirement planning is making up a greater proportion of planners’ workload and they are looking for platform tools to make life easier....

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People & Products

Financial Services group, ClearView has appointed co-founder of Matrix Planning Solutions, Allison Dummett, to the newly-created role of head of strategic advice....

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman, Wayne Byres says recent events have drawn the regulator's attention to corporate culture in the life/risk sector....

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Financial planning

Failed agribusiness MIS are a result of insufficient regulation governing the meaning of ‘general advice’, the FPA believes....

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Financial planning

BT Financial Group has told advisers there can be merit in advising clients out of group and into individual retail life utilising partial rollovers....

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Financial planning

Life insurers are not only facing renewed political and regulatory scrutiny, they are facing mixed signals from the life/risk market....

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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