FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The financial planning industry is in a state of flux - although arguably, regional planners have it a bit tougher in some areas, such as succession planning, financing a...

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Editorial

The sole purpose test has governed the operations of Australian superannuation funds for nearly two decades but, as Mike Taylor reports, it may require some reinterpretat...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has questioned the legitimacy of a television advertising blitz by industry superannu...

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Financial planning

Technology is playing an even bigger role in financial planning. New software developments have a good chance of achieving cost and administrative efficiencies ahead of u...

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Editorial

History suggests the advantages flowing to industry superannuation funds from the Government’s Future of Financial Advice changes may ultimately prove to be a political l...

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Superannuation

New research underscores the degree to which planners can leverage off interest in SMSFs....

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Financial planning

Industry experts suggest that the financial planning industry is experiencing an era of change no less significant than the 2001 financial services reform. While this pre...

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Financial planning

As the financial planning industry moves towards a fee-for-service environment, there is a pressing need to ensure clients understand exactly what they are paying for, ac...

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Editorial

Non-aligned dealer group executives have long been warning that the new Future of Financial Advice reforms would lead to consolidation in the financial advice market. Geo...

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Editorial

Despite some media reports to the contrary, Mike Taylor writes that the top 20 licensees in the financial planning industry emerged in reasonable shape from ASIC’s review...

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Editorial

Putting aside the increasingly open question of whether the Gillard Labor Government will remain in power long enough to oversee the implementation of its Future of Finan...

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Superannuation

The Government's Stronger Super package imposes opt-out arrangements on consolidation of multiple superannuation accounts....

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Financial planning

The Industry Super Network (ISN) has called for "watertight" consumer protection requirements to guard against future financial planning "scandals"....

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Financial planning

Rice Warner has responded to criticism from segments of the financial planning industry over its findings that opt-in would cost $11 per client with a clarification over ...

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Editorial

The use by Industry Super Network (ISN) of research and surveying organisations to help prosecute its agenda with respect to financial planning represents the transfer of...

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