FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Independent advice could cease to exist if planning laws continue to back institutions’ current charge of acquisitions, an adviser fears. ...

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Financial planning

Sentry Financial Services to write to SMSF clients after ASIC surveillance of corporate authorised representative...

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Financial planning

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....

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Financial planning

ISA chief executive, David Whiteley, has accused the major banks of lobbying for the return of sale commissions for financial advice....

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Financial planning

The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....

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Financial planning

ANZ will bring financial planning to retail shop fronts as part of a pilot program to showcase its range of advice options....

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Financial planning

Financial planning practices on the market are being heavily overpriced because their sellers have failed to adopt a profit-based skew, a broker believes. ...

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Financial planning

An embarrassed ASIC has imposed license conditions on Comm FP and Financial Wisdom as short-comings in compensation arrangements are revealed....

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Financial planning

FPA uses Comm FP’s continuing troubles to restate case for separating product from advice....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Managed Account Providers will be telling planners about their options in a national roadshow starting in June. ...

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Financial planning

IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher says it will be business as usual for SFGA clients following acquisition....

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Financial planning

IOOF will acquire SFG Australia in a $670 million transaction....

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Editorial

When Money Management’s sister publication, Super Review, conducted a Post-Retirement and Ageing Forum in Sydney, it served to underline why the superannuation sector nee...

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Editorial

With traditional asset choices no longer offering the portfolio diversification they once did for Australian investors, Alexander McNab makes the case for alternative ass...

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a Gold Coast advisory group related to deficiencies in monitoring and supervising its planners...

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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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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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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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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