FINANCIAL PLANNING

Superannuation

Expert panel advocates finding a concessional caps’ sweet spot and limiting lump sums....

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Financial planning

Lower-cost and flexible pricing models have been the most successful elements in driving planners’ satisfaction with investment platforms, according to a new report by In...

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People & Products

Former Ventura Investment Management managing director Kate Mulligan has joined non-aligned wealth management group netwealth as a non-executive director....

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Financial planning

Planners leave amid FOFA pressure and institutional offers....

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Life/Risk

New Plan for Life data paints healthy but mixed picture of life/risk market....

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Financial planning

Better business insurance can be gained by engaging with insurance brokers. ...

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Financial planning

The Coalition has released a new policy paper which confirms it would amend FOFA to “reduce compliance costs for small business financial advisers”. ...

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Financial planning

The regulator permanently bans a planner and insurance broker in separate actions....

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Financial planning

While bank-owned dealer groups aggressively increased their adviser numbers in the last few years, non-aligned financial planning businesses have had to put serious brake...

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Financial planning

FPA states that professional status requires association membership....

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Financial planning

ASIC takes the unusual step of using the weekend to announce a new focus on analyst briefings....

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Rate the raters

Between financial planners and fund managers stand research houses vetting products as they come to market, often to the chagrin of fund managers who have come to rely on...

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Rate the raters

Money Management asked fund managers once again what they thought about the research houses which rate their products....

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Financial planning

Financial planning software company IRESS is continuing its market domination, with new figures showing it now holds 50 per cent of the planner market. ...

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Financial planning

Advisers unsure of what to charge for ongoing service ...

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