FINANCIAL PLANNING

Superannuation

APRA will start a consultation process on delivering investment level performance later this year....

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Financial planning

Despite the satisfaction with platforms reaching a nine-year high, a new survey suggests 40 per cent of financial planners would happily switch providers for lower fees....

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Financial planning

Deloitte's study of the reverse mortgage sector shows reverse mortgages are no longer favoured by financial planners despite the products' increasing growth....

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Superannuation

The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....

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Superannuation

ASIC signals a push to have SMSF trustees acknowledge the existence of a higher level of risk....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants' affiliation with MLC and AMP/AXA will not threaten its members' independence, says IPA general manager Vicki Stylianou....

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Financial planning

Treasury officials are continuing to apportion blame to financial planners for some Trio Capital losses....

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Financial planning

Many independent financial planners are not taking full advantage of the capabilities of their financial planning software, contributing to practice inefficiency and miss...

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Editorial

Is any sensible financial planning principal capable of resisting the offer of up to $1 million to change dealer groups and/or corporate allegiance?...

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Financial planning

Based on their intentions, actions and results, financial advisers get the new, repeat and referral clients they deserve. David Penglase explains....

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Editorial

Although revenues continue to trend down, financial planning practice operating profitability has actually risen in the past year, while advisers also indicate they are o...

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Financial planning

Founder of McGrath Business Advisory Dan McGrath will join WLM Financial ahead of the merger between the two firms....

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Financial planning

In the "noise" around how many Count practices have transitioned over to BT groups and under what arrangements, the reasons practices switch licensees seem to have been l...

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Financial planning

Consensus is building in the wider financial services industry that platforms and asset managers should shoulder the burden of lower financial advice fees being demanded ...

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Superannuation

APRA admits it does not collect data on how long superannuation funds take to administer rollovers and has no view on what might represent best practice....

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