FOFA

Life/Risk

New research undertaken by CommInsure has reinforced the long-term implications of the Government's remuneration restrictions around the sale of life/risk insurance withi...

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Financial planning

AFA signals it will be working to align its Principles of Practice with the outline contained in ASIC consultation paper....

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Financial planning

The FPA says its upgraded professional code of conduct will be ready to go as soon as ASIC has finalised the new requirements....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has announced changes to its Code of Professional Practice in order to bring it in line with the Australian Securities and Investment C...

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Financial planning

ASIC has released a consultation paper to determine how a professional code of conduct will obviate the need for a financial adviser to comply with opt-in provisions cont...

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Financial planning

The financial planning university challenge run through AMP's Horizons program has attracted more than twice the number of entrants than in its first year, with a La Trob...

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Financial planning

With major legislative change set to occur, the role software, technology and new media are playing in financial planning today is unprecedented....

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Financial planning

AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....

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Editorial

The trouble with APES 230 is that it goes much further than FOFA, with a prohibition on commissions and the elimination of asset-based fee arrangements....

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Financial planning

With dealer groups looking to service untapped markets, rural and regional Australia could represent a perfect growth opportunity for financial planners....

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Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has outlined the draft ground rules on conflicted remuneration and, as Mike Taylor writes, there are inevitable impac...

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Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

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Accounting

The introduction of the APES 230 ethical standards for accountants will not affect WHK's business model, according to the dealer group's chief risk officer Craig Lake....

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Financial planning

BT chief Brad Cooper outlines growth push based on financial planner alignment and product quality....

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Financial planning

Funds manager Vanguard Investments has announced that it intends publishing quarterly portfolio holdings for all of its funds from this month onwards....

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