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Financial planning

The FPA has launched a campaign called ‘Bulletproof Financial Planning’ to promote best practice in the industry and support members through the FOFA transition....

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People & Products

Founder and former chief executive of Finovia Group, Geoff Pritchard, has joined Elixir Consulting as a business coach to service the company's Melbourne and Perth market...

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Financial planning

Employers need to ensure they are continually engaging and rewarding staff as part of their retention strategy as the year comes to an end....

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Financial planning

It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...

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Financial planning

Financial planning businesses should conduct a health check of how they are tracking as they approach the end of the calendar year, according to Macquarie Practice Consul...

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Funds management

Fund managers have been accused of neglecting the needs of retail clients and catering to the institutional market....

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Financial planning

Macquarie Practice Consulting has recommended financial planning businesses re-examine their overall business health, including revising whether their referral partners a...

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Financial planning

Outdated manual compliance operations coupled with an increasing workload and loss of experienced practitioners threatens to create a massive compliance risk for dealer g...

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Financial planning

Wealth Today attributes a combined mortgage broking and financial advice service offering (based around the upskilling of brokers) for its rapid recent growth....

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Financial planning

Dealer groups aligned with big institutions should be honest with consumers and describe themselves as 'agents' of their parent company, says Paragem managing director Ia...

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Financial planning

Financial planning groups are restructuring salary models to make sure their planners are rewarded after the ban on commissions officially comes in on 1 July 2013....

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Top 100

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the sale of client books entailing trailing commissions will look utterly incongruous in a post-FOFA world unless financial planners are actively ...

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Financial planning

A Radar Results analysis of 500 financial planning businesses has found larger practices earn around three times as much in annual fees per client as smaller practices....

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Policy & Regulation

The Opposition is demanding the Government reveal the costs and benefits of its FOFA legislation....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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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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