FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

ASIC has flagged a crack-down on breach reporting with particular emphasis on high risk licensees with poor cultures....

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Financial planning

Ethics classes for financial planners should be fundamental to the new education standards, with self-regulation a near impossible benchmark for the profession, two indus...

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Life/Risk

The insurance industry has been allowed to “morph” itself into a financial advice profession blind-sided by hidden agendas, according to accounting firm, Chan and Naylor....

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Editorial

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

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Editorial

While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...

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Superannuation

ISA claims it supports non-conflicted financial planning advice and its position on non-conflicted superannuation puts it on the same side of popular opinion...

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

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Editorial

Given a decade of generally bad publicity for the financial planning sector, it is a wonder that planner numbers have not seriously declined....

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Editorial

Money Management’s 2014 Top 100 Dealer Group research has revealed an industry which has changed substantially since 2007/08 and might be on the cusp of further change. ...

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Editorial

The financial planning industry has undergone some momentous changes in the last few years and it’s critical the planners respond to the changing environment at the same ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry must lobby the Palmer United Party to defend hard-won FOFA gains. ...

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Editorial

The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....

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Editorial

Andy Schmulow argues that the controvesy surrounding ASIC and its handling of the Commonwealth Bank have seriously damaged the financial planning industry and left few pe...

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Editorial

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...

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