FUTURE OF FINANCIAL ADVICE

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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Policy & Regulation

A consulting firm predicts many financial planning practices and dealer groups will fail to get FOFA-ready....

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Life/Risk

Insurance brokers have told Money Management Vero Insurance representatives have alerted them to a price hike of up to 50 per cent to Vero's professional indemnity insura...

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Financial planning

ASIC has monitored more than 3,300 providers of financial advice over the past year, dedicating 29 staffers to the surveillance....

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Financial planning

Following Vow Financial Wealth's entry into a joint venture with a financial planning firm in May last year, Vow is clearly focussed on attracting more mortgage brokers, ...

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Editorial

The dealer group model is changing and BT’s Mark Spiers says financial planners will need to make choices consistent with the newly evolving reality....

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Financial planning

GBST has released a new wealth management platform that it said is market ready for incoming Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) requirements....

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Financial planning

Asgard’s Infinity eWRAP reached a milestone this week – passing $2 billion in funds under management....

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Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road has increased its overall revenue but high operating costs have led to a $6.83 million net loss before tax....

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Financial planning

FOFA has radically altered the dynamics of financial planning platforms, generating new approaches across the industry and between platform providers....

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Life/Risk

The opt-in requirement will touch the day-to-day operations of risk advisers who have switched to some form of fee remuneration model, writes Sue Laing....

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Editorial

ASIC has been handed a mammoth task in delivering FOFA, underscoring the tiny window available to the financial services industry to prepare for the new regulatory regime...

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Financial planning

Early adopters of scaled advice technologies and services may have to rethink their offering as the FOFA reforms move closer to their start date....

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Editorial

Gloomy headlines have at least played a part in creating financial anxiety among Australian investors. Tim Browne explains why it’s important for financial advisers to us...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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