FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

ASIC bans former Westpac financial planner after he submitted nine false insurance policy proposals between May and September 2014....

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Financial planning

Clients undervaluing financial advice is one of the biggest barriers to planners obtaining the salary they believe they deserve....

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Financial planning

A strong Commbank result has been clouded by a profit decline in its Wealth Management business flowing from its advice remediation and compliance costs....

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Financial planning

A specialist financial services lawyer has warned that any moves by ASIC to recover the costs of its investigations and prosecutions from those it convicts could end up b...

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Financial planning

The planning arm of Bangarra Group - Bennelong Wealth Partners - has signed four veteran Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW) advisers as they open their own practice in Sydney...

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Financial planning

Specialist publicly-listed financial services technology firm, GBST, has posted a strong result largely underpinned by its international expansion....

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Financial planning

The ABA defended the widening gap between credit card interest rates and the official cash rate, attributing it to increased volatility. ...

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People & Products

The Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is expected to further discuss super fund governance when he addresses the Workplace Superannuation Specialists Association conf...

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People & Products

Fitzpatricks Private Wealth recruits Perth-based David Barber to establish west coast presence....

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People & Products

BT upgrades and extends reach of Key Person Income insurance offering to cover more Australian small to medium-sized businesses....

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People & Products

Findex recruits former ANZ head of origination, corporate bank, Peter Gardiner as Global Head of Business Development....

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Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance is seeking new practices and offering equity stakes to help them exit institutional ownership....

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Financial planning

Non aligned advice group MyPlanner signs with Implemented Portfolios and netwealth to boost its objective based advice model with new platform offering....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has signalled its intention to eject the Fair Work Commission from default fund selection and to limit the industrial muscle of unions on superannuation is...

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Financial planning

Most financial planners feel they are valued by their employers with few actively looking for an alternative place of work....

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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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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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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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