FOFA

Funds management

Investors set to own platform via equity stakes deal....

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Financial planning

An Investment Trends survey conducted two months before FOFA came into effect revealed only 23 per cent of financial planners felt ready....

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Financial planning

Thanks to the best interests duty financial advisers now have a better chance then ever to identify quality licensees, writes Anne Fuchs. ...

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Editorial

There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...

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Funds management

Macquarie Wrap has reached $4 billion in funds under administration (FUA) for its Consolidator Series of investment, superannuation and pension accounts....

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Financial planning

There are many aspects involved in running a successful financial planning practice, including the things clients can see and the things that lie beneath the surface. Mil...

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Financial planning

ISN chief David Whiteley has urged the next elected government to give FOFA a chance before abandoning it completely. ...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has finished the last financial year with $7.6 billion in net profit after tax, and an earnings boost for its wealth management division. ...

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Financial planning

The Coalition’s Paul Fletcher reaffirms a change in Government will see a change to key elements of FOFA....

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Editorial

In a two-horse race at the forthcoming Federal Election, Mike Taylor writes that financial services companies are mainly backing self-interest. ...

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Financial planning

Fairfax Media has decided to exit its financial services play, selling InvestSMART to Australasian Wealth Investments....

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Financial planning

Grandfathering will remain under a Coalition Government unless the client decides otherwise....

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Editorial

The Association of Financial Advisers was right to open talks with Treasury officials around the status of grandfathering when planners move between one licensee and anot...

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Financial planning

Matrix promotes two staffers and outsources paraplanning...

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Financial planning

Planner sentiment has taken a dive over the last three months and there is more than one reason for it, according to Wealth Insights....

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