"FINANCIAL PLANNING"

Financial planning

Despite the rapid rise of digital/robo advice, face-to-face advice will continue to dominate, according to research by Comparator Business Benchmarking....

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Accounting

The Institute of Public Accountants is urging members to change their business models as concerns grow that ASIC may be facing an accountants licensing bottleneck....

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Life/Risk

Planners need to take a consistent approach to life insurance recommendations, according to FPA general manager, policy and conduct, Dante De Gori....

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Life/Risk

Fee for service can help clients maintain cover, according to Wealth Elements Dean van Zyl....

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Financial planning

Financial planners have a key role in educating consumers that life cover provided in super may not be enough....

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Superannuation

New APRA data has revealed that it is retail funds which are lagging on transferring accrued default super balances to MySuper products....

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Financial planning

A new e-book analysing mistakes within SOAs identifies failings around identifying what is really in a client’s best interests....

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Life/Risk

Rice Warner predicts 60 per cent will become the ultimate LIF default and that other major banks may emulate NAB in exiting life insurance manufacturing....

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Financial planning

Specialist advice and legal document provider, Topdocs, has unveiled a new registration tool to help advisers streamline applications when processing self-managed super f...

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Life/Risk

The Government has moved to make the major life insurers more clearly define lapses and therefore what is and is not churn....

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Life/Risk

ClearView chief executive, Simon Swanson, calls on Government to follow through on making all vertically integrated financial firms include all APRA-regulated insurers on...

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft has used the regulator’s annual report to reinforce its continuing focus on advice from large, vertically-integrated institutions....

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News

Westpac turns in solid result but partial sale of BTIM contributes to softer wealth result....

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News

BT Financial Group, Brad Cooper looks beyond once-offs towards Panorama and Adviser View....

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Accounting

Capstone Financial Planning is now providing “authorisation solutions” to accountants as the financial planning landscape continues to shift....

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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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