FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Investor worries about financial markets are under control while market return expectations have jumped, writes Recep Peker....

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Editorial

There is more than a little hypocrisy in calls by law firms for people to avoid using bank financial planners, given the reality that the commercial practices pursued by ...

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Financial planning

A soundly-based adviser/client relationship offering real value will ultimately withstand clients’ disappointment with negative fluctuations on the share market, writes R...

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Financial planning

Australia’s growing “class action mentality” and the emergence of litigation funders have created fertile ground for claims against participants in the financial services...

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Financial planning

The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....

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Financial planning

FOFA regulations require planners to outline platform and investment choices in SOAs....

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Financial planning

A former WealthSure planner who has been ordered to pay $1.7 million in damages to a client is unlikely to pay the claim after he declared himself bankrupt....

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Life/Risk

Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...

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Financial planning

Bradley Thomas Sherwin, the bankrupt chairman of Wickham Securities, has been banned from the financial services industry for more than two and a half years....

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Financial planning

Incumbent FPA board member Peter O’Toole calls for the re-election of the FPA board and an end to bickering among the various categories of planners....

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People & Products

Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA), part of the netwealth Advice group, has appointed Peter Boston as national advice manager, the final addition to its new exe...

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Accounting

Former WHK group chief executive stands down....

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Financial planning

Planners encouraged to assess research house compliance with new regulatory standard....

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Superannuation

ASIC’s SMSF taskforce finds some disturbing features within low-balance SMSFs....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....

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