FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Industry Super Network chief executive David Whiteley will find himself pitted against some of the financial planning industry's key executives at a Money Management/Asso...

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Financial planning

Becoming a true profession will help the financial planning industry get rid of its bad apples, according to Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd....

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Superannuation

The same company which produced research claiming FOFA would make advice cheaper is now in the headlines for giving women more super than men....

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Financial planning

A group of boutique financial planning businesses is planning to launch a pro-bono advice service for people in need, which could be beneficial to the financial planning ...

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Financial planning

While recent media reports have painted a less than flattering picture of its former culture, it is important to recognise that Commonwealth Financial Planning has come a...

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Financial planning

There are enough unknowns remaining in FOFA to create uncertainty for planners well into next year....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) for its lack of understanding of the financial advice industry structure, highli...

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Financial planning

The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...

Financial planning

As we edge closer to 1 July 2013, Fiona Mackenzie encourages practices to look at how fit for FOFA they are and what they can do to become FOFA-ready....

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Financial planning

Daily media coverage of the events leading up to the CFP enforceable undertaking generates moves for another Parliamentary inquiry....

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Financial planning

BT’s Bryan Ashenden explains why the best interest duty is in everyone’s best interests....

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Editorial

The appeals of the FPA for a further extension of the TASA implementation seemed to be falling on deaf ears, with the Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, seeming determi...

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Editorial

As the curtain comes down on the current Parliament, financial services players are left to wonder whether the Government should not have just stuck to the script reflect...

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Financial planning

The majority report of the PJC clears the way for TASA legislation with the only concession being a transition period....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...

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