FINANCIAL PLANNING

Funds management

This year belonged to Macquarie Investment Management at the Fund Manager of the Year Awards, as it notched up six nominations and five wins. Congratulations!...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association has partnered with wealth management firm, Morgans Financial, to provide SMSF training to its authorised representatives. ...

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Superannuation

Super funds see robo-advice as a service they will provide free to members as a channel to comprehensive offerings that will attract a charge....

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Financial planning

ANZ will launch its Grow Wrap after partnering with Macquarie in February, and will pilot a health and wellness pilot to relieve insurance costs for clients. ...

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Features

Irrespective of the Federal Budget, leverage will remain an important strategy device for both planners and their clients, according to a Money Management roundtable....

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Features

The market volatility which has marked the opening months of 2016 has served to create challenges for advisers, but volatility and leverage need not be mutually exclusive...

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Features

Your typical margin lending client may not be who you expect him/her to be, especially when the pursuit of tax breaks is left out of the equation, according to a Money Ma...

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Features

The global financial crisis and the collapse of Storm Financial placed a spotlight on the need for adviser education and the reality that leverage is not appropriate for ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended Marigold Falconer International’s AFSL after it failed to have a current indemnity insurance and lodge financial statements on time....

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Financial planning

The FSC has declared it will research whether FOFA actually delivered on making advice more accessible and affordable....

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Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an EU from an accounting and tax advisory firm for giving inappropriate advice to clients to set up SMSFs. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a NSW financial services licence holder from providing financial services after it found he was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and othe...

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Features

Advisers could face hefty lawsuits if they are unable to keep pace with regulatory change and capability development. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can avoid legal t...

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Editorial

The Federal Government has lost sight of the long-run Budget benefit of encouraging retirement incomes self-sufficiency by lowering the concessional super contribution ca...

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Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has acknowledged that it has had little cause to scrutinise insurance claims handling and it will be highly reliant o...

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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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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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