FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

While financial planners seem to over-estimate the risk tolerance of their clients, they are often good at identifying and achieving life goals....

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Fintech models cannot fit into the current regulatory framework as it was designed in the early 2000s and is out of date....

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A Sydney-based financial planning group has launched an employee benefits scheme to lift employee financial literacy with connections through to advice intermediaries....

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ASIC has banned a second Macquarie Equities Limited adviser in relation to falsification of records and unauthorised trading on client accounts....

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The FSC wants the Government and Opposition to develop a bipartisan “purpose” for super and had warned the Government about the costs of pausing the rise in the super gua...

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NAB owned financial planning group Apogee will focus on boosting client experiences around financial planning to expand its reach into those not currently accessing advic...

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ASIC enforcement activities have led to three advisers receiving jail sentences in the first half of 2015, the regulator reveals....

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Australian ETF assets rose by 3.76 per cent since the March quarter, and stood at $18.29 billion in the June quarter. ...

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Financial planning organisation State Super Financial Services have deployed Midwinter's cloud-based Advice OS platform in the first stage of its business transformation,...

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Fixed income broker, FIIG Securities, has launched a managed income portfolio service, allowing investors to have an integrated offering with a fund manager and direct bo...

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Privately owned financial planning group Fitzpatricks Private Wealth has signed another senior planner from a competitor, the second move of its kind in the past month....

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A specialist financial services lawyer has questioned whether planners can be held negligent for not recommending SMSFs to super fund members with high account balances....

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Former NAB financial planner, Graeme Cowper, is suing the ABC over its reporting of allegedly poor financial advice provided by the bank’s advisers....

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The term robo-advice needs to be better defined as reflecting its current focus on compliance and risk profiling instead of actual advice, according to the head of an adv...

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Platforms have been usurping the role of advisers by constructing barriers to entry, according to Heathcote Investments Partners director, Clayton Coplestone....

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