FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Market uncertainty and declining investor sentiment has created gloom amongst many Australian financial planners....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund governance changes carry with them the risk of contagion from importing finance sector norms....

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Financial planning

Platform provider netwealth has launched a private label managed account offering with GPS Wealth....

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers have been blamed alongside lawyers for pushing the multitude of claims which placed pressure on TPD products within superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

Non-aligned advisers make up one in every two planners, according to the 2015 Top 100 research conducted by Money Management....

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Financial planning

Robo-advice models in their current form don’t consider existing investments of investors, both inside and outside super, which could lead to negative outcomes....

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Financial planning

Macquarie has completed its Enforceable Undertaking with ASIC but its compliance bill has quadrupled to $413 million and is forecast to continue rising....

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Financial planning

Robo-advice provider to conduct pilot with salaried advisers within large, non-aligned advice provider Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

The FPA has rejected claims by the AIOFP that its members were not consulted and that institutions shaped its proposal on life insurance commission changes....

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Financial planning

Perpetual Private has recruited long-serving ipac securities technical services head, Colin Lewis, as Head of Strategic Advice....

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People & Products

Robo advice specialist, Ignition Wealth, has signed an agreement with the Retirement Planning Association of Australasia....

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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers wants lapses which are beyond the control of advisers to be exempted from the three-year claw-back provisions....

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Financial planning

New Investment Trends research reveals planners have never enjoyed greater levels of platform choice and are opting to look beyond the dominant BT Wrap, Colonial FirstCho...

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Financial planning

A class action against Sandhurst Trustees, related to its oversight of Wickham Securities, will reach the courts with a first hearing date set for late July....

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Financial planning

Enrolments into the AFA Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner designation has hit 500 since late 2013 when the curriculum was relaunched with Kaplan. ...

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