FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Social media doesn’t play a major role in most advisers’ marketing strategies, with the majority still favouring traditional pathways like referral networks, a survey has...

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Funds management

The use of SMAs continues to gather momentum, with Macquarie adding them to its Wrap Platform....

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Financial planning

A financial planner has backed ASIC’s call to instil financial literacy into the school education system, saying literacy is lacking in adults too....

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Financial planning

Financial institutions should be prohibited from providing any form of adviser education to avoid perpetuating current business models which have promoted sales over advi...

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Superannuation

The Financial Systems Inquiry has been told that while there are many educational events aimed at the SMSF sector, there exist significant variations in their quality....

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Financial planning

Major insurer TAL claims clients care more about price than whether planners are aligned or non-aligned....

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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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Financial planning

ASIC has confirmed it has tightened its approach on enforceable undertakings in the wake of those applying to Commonwealth Financial Planning and Macaquarie Private Wealt...

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Superannuation

People’s Choice Credit Union will develop a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) offering and enhance its current superannuation product range in an effort to expand i...

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Financial planning

Domacom challenges AMP’s assertions to FSI on virtues of vertical integration claiming there is equal or greater virtue in independence....

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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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Financial planning

Improved performances across a range of metrics are giving financial planners reasons to be optimistic according to the latest Investment Trends Planner Business Model Re...

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Financial planning

The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...

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Financial planning

Platform provider HUB24’s acquisition of Paragem has been completed....

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