FINANCIAL PLANNING

Life/Risk

The insurance losses reported by AMP and RGA reflect pricing for good times and a need to adapt to tough times....

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Financial planning

Grant Holley, the head of law firm Holley Nethercote, suggests planners take a number of steps in the wake of FOFA’s official start....

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Financial planning

Equity Trustees requests mutual due diligence access after Trust said it would seek further information on take-over bid...

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Financial planning

When AFA chief Brad Fox asked Roadshow attendees in Sydney to put their hands up if they thought the financial advice industry was a profession, only 5-10 per cent of peo...

Financial planning

Financial advisers tend to over-estimate the average investor’s knowledge of financial markets – but social media could help to stem this trend, a US study has found....

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Financial planning

Zenith Investment Partners will provide research to ESI Financial Services, the financial planning arm of 49,000-member industry superannuation fund Energy Super. ...

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Financial planning

New FOFA research commissioned by industry funds is at odds with reality, according to financial planning executives. ...

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Financial planning

Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...

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Editorial

Barry Lambert looks at the underlying value of an AFSL, why you might avoid buying one and the likely impact of licensing accountants. ...

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Financial planning

SMSF investors have a higher propensity to seek out and value advice than non-SMSFs, while nearly half of recent SMSF investors are under the age of 30....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) for its lack of understanding of the financial advice industry structure, highli...

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Financial planning

The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...

Financial planning

Planner satisfaction with platforms has reached the highest level recorded in 10 years, according to findings from the Investment Trends 2013 Planner Technology Report....

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Funds management

The drop in the Australian dollar may reveal a few poorly performing sectors, according to accounting and advisory firm William Buck....

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Financial planning

Seaview Consulting believes planning firms can translate the FOFA changes into a business opportunity....

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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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The FAAA has secured CSLR-related documents under the FOI process, after an extended four-month wait, which show little analysis was done on how the scheme’s cost would a...

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