FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Advisers need risk capacity and risk tolerance measures to help clients reach retirement goals, Milliman believes....

Financial planning

Knowledge-intensive jobs are the biggest hiring trend as skilled, experienced, and educated financial planners are in short supply according to Hays....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has offered almost $4.9 million in compensation to clients who received poor advice while it has offered compensation to 201 cases for poor advice i...

Financial planning

Some financial advisers tended to overestimate the financial literacy levels of clients, while other advisers were expressing the need to explain financial concepts to cl...

Financial planning

ASIC has banned former BTFG financial adviser, Michael Mahoney, from providing financial services for four years for misleading and deceptive conduct when providing insur...

Financial planning

New research reveals that as few as 20 per cent of people trust their banks to give them unbiased advice....

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former Queensland AMP Financial Planner representative from providing financial services for providing inappropriate advice and borrowing cl...

Financial planning

The Australian Bankers' Association has imposed a planner hiring protocol for use by members to screen out bad planners....

Financial planning

The financial services industry has welcomed the introduction of LISTO but is divided on the objective of superannuation....

Superannuation

The number of people planning to retire in the next 12 months will place a high financial burden on the government, Roy Morgan research found....

Life/Risk

Those pushing for an EGM to change the constitution of the Association of Financial Advisers have fallen well short of the requisite five per cent of members....

Financial planning

Attaining high levels of education could give advisers the confidence to face ethical dilemmas thrown at them by licensees and question the status quo, according to State...

Financial planning

Australians are thinking more about their financial futures but 63 per cent have no plans, according to the FPA....

Financial planning

Australians continued to remain uncertain about their retirement nest eggs but professionally advised Australians felt more prepared for retirement, research showed....

Financial planning

The AIOFP has weighed into the constitutional debate within the AFA, arguing it is about breaking the shackles of institutional manipulation....

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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

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