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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association’s proposals to have adviser registration over-ride licensing has run into a backlash from key financial planning licensees who say they...

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Financial planning

TenFifty Financial Group combines advice businesses previously aligned with Garvan, Apogee, and Meritum and will stand as a community for self-employed advisers and advic...

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Financial planning

Two boutique dealer groups, Spark Financial Group and Aura Wealth Australia, have announced they have signed binding agreements to merge. ...

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Financial planning

A West Australian adviser has told the Federal Treasury that industry funds have been allowed to hide behind intra-fund advice and to create an environment that favours o...

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Financial planning

The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....

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Financial planning

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

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Financial planning

As AMP moves to exit up to 250 financial planning business over 80 planners say they will face financial ruin as a result....

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Financial planning

How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has foreshadowed court action in the wake of a review of fee disclosure statements and renewal notices which uncovere...

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Features

Money Management currently runs a new series in which we speak with financial planning groups who share their views on the industry in a post-Royal Commission environment...

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Life/Risk

Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has confirmed the turnover of around 20% of its advisers in the face of the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Aut...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told financial planning firms it expected them to “keep up” with the implementation of regtech....

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Financial planning

Centrepoint chief executive, Angus Benbow, makes no bones about the group’s desire to grow the number of planners working under its license....

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Financial planning

Dealer groups are looking to grow their footprints on the back of the influx of advisers expected from the changes at AMP, the Commonwealth Bank and elsewhere....

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Financial planning

The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....

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