FINANCIAL PLANNING

Editorial

Count Financial’s Michael Beer has been awarded this year’s BlackRock/PortfolioConstruction Forum Scholarship for the CIMA designation. ...

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Financial planning

The FPA has kicked off its financial planning week, which will allow consumers to get free financial advice from its members....

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Financial planning

A major law firm has warned Australian consumers against taking advice from bank financial planners....

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Editorial

IOOF Holdings report a $79.8 million net profit for the year ended 30 June following acquisition growth and improvements in productivity....

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Superannuation

Super funds will need to ramp up their offering to prevent member outflow to SMSFs, according to a report by CoreData....

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Editorial

Financial planner recruitment and migration within the financial services industry is virtually on hold until after the 7 September Federal Election....

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Financial planning

Education provider confident licensees can choose quality training without regulator oversight....

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Financial planning

The latest ASIC Market Supervision Report reveals practices amongst securities dealers which might make a planner blush. ...

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Financial planning

An Investment Trends survey conducted two months before FOFA came into effect revealed only 23 per cent of financial planners felt ready....

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Financial planning

A former WealthSure financial adviser has pleaded guilty to 22 criminal charges including falsifying client withdrawal requests....

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Financial planning

Crowe Horwath advice division bounces back....

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Financial planning

A technical issue which prompted AFS Group not to establish a trust account via which it could remunerate authorised representatives has ended up denying those planners t...

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Superannuation

The growth of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector could be damaged by the failure of fund members to properly manage the funds and their holdings, accordi...

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Financial planning

ASIC is proposing to step away from approving training courses for financial advisers, leaving it to education providers to self-assess their own courses....

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Financial planning

Former Lionsgate representative permanently banned....

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