FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann says the Government remains committed to its FOFA changes....

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Financial planning

ASIC has answered parliamentary questions about superannuation union liaison officers, the type of advice they can provide and whose AFSL they might be working under....

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Superannuation

Advisers may need to rethink their approach to aged care advice. ...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive, Mark Rantall acknowledges the high price paid by the industry resulting from bad publicity generated by whistleblowers....

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Financial planning

Job growth for financial planners has been on a flat trajectory since the GFC, which should prompt opportunists to pivot into future boom areas like healthcare and succes...

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Financial planning

FPA’s outgoing chairman, Matthew Rowe, says the FPA won’t seek to defend the indefensible where bad advice is concerned....

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Financial planning

Industry public offer fund Sunsuper and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have announced they have agreed to a national referral program....

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Financial planning

AMP has announced the rationalisation of Genesys with member firms being given the opportunity to transition to other AMP licensees....

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Financial planning

New research suggests SMSF advice is a prime area for consolidation....

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Financial planning

As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...

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Financial planning

Adviser Ratings says the fact it has signed up 1000 advisers in its first month is validation that planners want change from their dealer groups, particularly when it com...

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Accounting

Independently-owned advisory firm Fortnum Financial Group (Fortnum) has moved into the accounting space with a new business, Fortnum Professional Strategies....

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Financial planning

FSGs should be part of the national register of advisers to prevent consumers getting skewed information from commercially operated websites. ...

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Financial planning

Dealer group head laments lack of consultation with planning industry ahead of launch of Adviser Ratings....

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Financial planning

The FPA has reported a 100 per cent surge in its CFP program take up after the CBA and AMP raised educational standards following scandals at the CBA and Macquarie Bank....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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SuperRatings has shared the median estimated return for balanced superannuation funds for the calendar year 2024, finding the year achieved “strong and consistent positiv...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Original bidder Bain Capital, which saw its first offer rejected in December, has returned with a revised bid for Insignia Financial....

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