FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Women globally are still suffering from the wage gap, and it has large-scale economic and social implications, according to Calvert Research’s ESG specialist, Erica Lasdo...

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Financial planning

Viridian is promising migrating BT Magnitude and Securitor planners it wants to keep the BTGL community together but under a new license with no legacy issues....

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Financial planning

The majority of millennials feel confident about their financial future but aren’t prepared for the possibility of unemployment due to injury or illness, new research fro...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to publish a status list of professional designation to clarify their st...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has welcomed last night’s Federal Budget, but cautioned that using ASIC’s industry funding model to pay for implementing Royal Commissi...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has restated its position on a three-year phase-out of grandfathering, claiming that commissions have led to some consumers paying impl...

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants has suggested that it is accountants who can fill the gap when consumers want advice but don’t want to pay high fees to advisers....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have found themselves in a pincer of rising costs and declining business values amid confirmation that some dealer groups are raising fees by as much a...

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Financial planning

Major insurer ClearView has committed to defending life/risk commissions in the face of the negative findings from the Royal Commission....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has delivered more information on historical degrees at the same time as apportioning two credits for the Financial P...

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Editorial

Just short of 20 years after beginning their adventure in wealth management, the major banks have all headed for the exit, leaking billions of dollars. ...

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Features

Does the Royal Commission’s call for a compensation scheme of last resort represent treating the symptoms rather than the disease? That is a question posed by Infocus We...

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Financial Wisdom advisor Anneliese Ada Willmott....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed closer scrutiny of advice provided via superannuation funds while noting that conflicts of interest in ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has wound up an illegal land banking investment scheme, Melbourne-based company Aviation 3030....

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

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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....

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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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