FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Brisbane financial planning firm, Carwardine Financial Services, has agreed to undergo an independent external review of its compliance following ASIC surveillance....

Financial planning

A forensic report found the CBA failed to meet the time-frames for several clients who requested reviews for poor advice provided between 2003 and 2012....

Financial planning

New academic research has confirmed clients value their planners and the advice they provide but that cost remains a barrier. ...

People & Products

NAB has appointed Stephen Poole as the new general manager of its Meritum Financial Group....

People & Products

Former Shadforth Tasmania head, James Louw has returned to Morningstar as the director of institutional business development....

Financial planning

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Sevices, Kelly O'Dwyer has confirmed people can call themselves as advisers with as little as four days' training and she thinks hi...

Financial planning

Former Yellow Brick Road chief executive, Matt Lawler, has joined OneVue in a new wealth management services role....

Superannuation

Big superannuation funds which want to stop members switching to SMSFs should be utilising exchange traded funds, according to Rice Warner....

Policy & Regulation

Advisers are moving towards strategic advice as opposed to investment type services and they are particularly interested in the aged care side, according to Aged Care Ste...

Financial planning

Finance executives should make a visible commitment to ethical behaviour by taking the Banking and Finance Oath, former APRA chair, John Laker said....

Financial planning

Members of the Financial Planning Association have been granted ASIC relief from opt-in if they sign up to the FPA’s Professional Ongoing Fees Code....

Editorial

The financial services industry is facing another year of uncertainty but there will be opportunities for it to become the master of its own destiny....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that accountant licensing has thus far proved to be the revolution which has not quite happened but the clock is still ticking. ...

Financial planning

Industry associations have welcomed the Federal Government’s introduction of the bill to mandate higher education and professional standards for advisers....

Financial planning

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, has introduced the bill to mandate professional standards and education into Parliament today....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 5 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks 1 day ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

2 days 18 hours ago