FINANCIAL PLANNING GROUPS

Policy & Regulation

Many financial planners have already decided that the legislation that emerges from the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will be unacceptable and ru...

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Editorial

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

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Editorial

The share prices of Australia’s major publicly listed financial planning groups have been trending down for most of the past 14 months and, as Mike Taylor reports, at lea...

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Superannuation

A trial arrangement between industry fund giant AustralianSuper and several financial planning dealer groups could lead to questions about the way advice services are str...

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Financial planning

AustralianSuper declares initial success in trial involving partnership with key planner groups....

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Financial planning

ASIC has signalled it will be looking closely at fast-growing financial planning businesses....

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Policy & Regulation

Mid-tier dealer groups will have to go beyond simply launching badged platforms, which are not necessarily the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) panacea some were hoping ...

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Financial planning

In an attempt to comply with industry standards, many financial planning groups have been over-reporting on their alternative remuneration registers, causing the Financia...

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Financial planning

Morningstar has picked up the research mandate for the Colonial First State (CFS) Advice Business at the expense of S&P....

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Superannuation

Planning groups are notable absentees from membership of the peak consultative council formed to oversee the Government’s superannuation changes....

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People & Products

One of the founders of Shaw Stockbroking, Harold Shapiro, has walked away from the company he built and led for almost two decades, pointing to irreconcilable differences...

Editorial

When it comes to financial advice remuneration models, it's the service that matters, not the mode of payment, says Indy Singh....

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Financial planning

The Encore Group is developing a desktop solution that aims to assist financial advisers transitioning to fee-for-service who are concerned about having the ‘value ...

Financial planning

Colonial First State’s phone-based limited advice service is being extended across its financial planning groups....

Financial planning

Sydney-based boutique financial planning firm Financial Spectrum has launched a financial planning practice start-up and training program aimed at developing advisers out...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months 1 week ago

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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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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