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Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the exclusion of insurance from the Investment and Financial Services Association's new superannuation charter....

Superannuation

New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...

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Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service appears set to be able to accept complaints by consumers against financial advisers up to a value of $500,000 from next year....

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Financial planning

TPD has become the victim of popular fallacies, and advisers are the best qualified to tackle and dispel them, writes COL FULLAGAR....

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Financial planning

Rising costs and tighter margins making it harder for individuals to run a financial planning business....

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Accounting

Dealer group Hillross is exploiting a growing trend by accounting firms to include financial planning in their offering to help drive its growth....

Life/Risk

AIG Life attempts to bridge insurance education gap with a new online insurance education centre....

Financial planning

A push is underway to extend premium tax deductibility within superannuation to critical illness insurance. SEAN MCCORMACK outlines the positives such a move would genera...

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Superannuation

SAM WALL responds to financial planners’ top queries following the recent Federal Budget....

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Superannuation

FABIAN BUSSOLETTI takes a look at acquiring property assets through self-managed superannuation funds....

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Life/Risk

Businesses are being warned against entering into uncommercial insurance arrangements in pursuit of tax deductions....

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Life/Risk

Complexity of insurance requires specialised advice: Penkin....

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Life/Risk

Broker pleaded guilty to one count of dishonesty and two counts of engaging in dishonest conduct....

Financial planning

Salary freezes and reductions, job cuts and drawn-out recruitment processes: challenging times lie ahead, but the diversity of the financial services sector means a varie...

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Editorial

Tower Australia Group has reported a 12 per cent decline in net profit but prefers to point to the positives contained in its underlying profit result....

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