FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Superannuation

Core elements of the financial planning industry are calling for greater regulatory scrutiny of the contractual arrangements underpinning the multimillion dollar group in...

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Financial planning

Retail clients do not give too much thought to the remuneration model their financial planner operates on, but fee for service provides transparency and value, according ...

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Financial planning

Amid moves to address perceived conflicts of interest in the financial planning industry, questions have been raised about BOLR arrangements. Meanwhile, recent comments b...

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Financial planning

Government claims opt-in would cost around $11 per financial planning client is at best questionable and, at worst, entirely misleading, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

Rice Warner will present a submission explaining how it arrived at the contentious $11 per client cost of opt-in that was quoted by Financial Services Minister Bill Short...

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Editorial

Financial planners have finally been given the details of the Government's FOFA reforms. In an editorial written prior to the release of the reform package Mike Taylor wa...

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Financial planning

Lack of financial planner interest in reverse mortgages presents one of the major challenges for the equity release sector. John Thomas lists some of the things to consid...

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Financial planning

The FPA has called for a ban on industry funds accessing MySuper and default fund balances to fund television advertising campaigns....

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Claims by the financial planning industry that all industry participants, including research providers, should be liable for some client losses has been met with a mixed ...

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Editorial

The financial services industry has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Superannuation Guarantee and, as Mike Taylor reports, the industry funds have more to celebrate...

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Superannuation

The Government's apparent favouritism of industry superannuation funds is attracting increased criticisms from the financial planning industry including, most notably, th...

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Financial planning

Financial planners have already started to focus on costs as a result of the proposed Future of Financial Advice reforms package, which could significantly boost the appe...

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Editorial

If Australian financial planner sentiment is to follow the patterns of the past decade, the global markets meltdown experienced in the opening days of August is likely to...

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Financial planning

Product manufacturers should be prepared to play a role in weeding out the bad apples who give the financial planning industry a bad name, according to the chief executiv...

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Editorial

A recent study has shown that advisers see their client relationship as the primary foundation of their value proposition. Fiona Mackenzie describes the importance of a ...

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