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Features

Does the Royal Commission’s call for a compensation scheme of last resort represent treating the symptoms rather than the disease? That is a question posed by Infocus We...

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Features

In a sea of reform recommendations for the banking and financial services sector, a looming election may see politicians skim across the surface on matters that deserve a...

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Expert Analysis

Financial services barrister Noel Davis examines the testimony given to the Royal Commission and its ultimate findings and suggests that for as much as it discovered ther...

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Expert Analysis

We entrust a significant portion of our savings into the superannuation system yet, as Hannah Wootton writes, the amount of information we get from funds in exchange is a...

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Features

Rhynhardt Roodt asks whether the golden age for the FAANG tech stocks is nearing an end or if they are going to continue to deliver for investors....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that planners should brace themselves for the additional compliance burden resulting from the looming passage of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Design an...

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Features

Synchron’s Don Trapnell explains why there are distinct differences between life/risk advisers and those providing holistic advice and why this should be recognised under...

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Features

The chair of life/risk focused dealer group Synchron, Michael Harrison claims the Royal Commission has highlighted the gaping chasm which exists between the high value pr...

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Financial planning

Despite the Royal Commission tainting perceptions of the financial services industry, a panel has told Money Management and Super Review’s Future of Wealth Management con...

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Features

Advisers will be able to better compare managed accounts under a new SMA database launched this month by FE, Mike Taylor writes....

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People & Products

Infocus Wealth Management has appointed Steve Davis to the Queensland-based role of chief commercial officer, effective 1 August. ...

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Features

Even before the Royal Commission, Australia’s wealth management industry was undergoing substantial change. HUB24’s Andrew Alcock asks what’s next?...

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Features

As financial planners gear up for new education requirements, Anastasia Santoreneos writes that it’s time to look at other industries employing similar licensing standard...

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Features

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been the frequent subject of demands for greater scrutiny of the regulators themselves. As Hannah Wootton writes,...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that for the major financial planning organisations the future resides in looking beyond the Royal Commission and reaping the benefits which flow from ...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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