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The current environment does not encourage advisers to charge fees for service, argues PETER BOBBIN. But all that might change if the law was amended to allow clients to ...
Financial planning
How do you keep clients happy in times like these? HARVEY BATE discusses the approach his firm has been successfully employing for years....
Financial planning
Like many financial planners, Wilson HTM financial planner Sonja Tetzke prides herself on her ability to manage clients’ investments. However, the difference between Tetz...
Financial planning
PROFESSIONAL indemnity insurance premiums have risen dramatically in the financial advisory marketplace, resulting in more costly advice and administration fees for consu...
Editorial
An understanding of market movements is essential for financial planners and as ROBERT KEAVNEY writes, taking a longer term view will always reveal the underlying fundame...
Financial planning
Three directors involved with a loans scheme to fund development of an invention have been found to have operated an unregistered managed investment scheme by the Austral...
Financial planning
A former Securitor financial planner has been handed down a life ban by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) from acting as a representative of a s...
Financial planning
A director of a taxation business in Melbourne has undertaken not to act as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser or hold a proper authority from ...
Financial planning
Regulation of financial planning industries around the world is getting tougher, a reaction to both past mistakes and the opportunity to lift standards in the future. FIO...
Financial planning
Niche marketing is not about scaling down your business – it’s the total opposite. Five financial planners tell KATE KACHOR and FIONA MOORE how niche markets have helped ...
Financial planning
At the most recent FPA National Convention, Ian Hutchison gave a session titled <i>‘</i><i>Passionate planning means designing finances and lifestlye</i><i>’</i>....
Financial planning
Bucking the aggregation trend, eleven former Pembroke and Godfrey Pembroke financial planners have established their own planning business following their growing disillu...
Financial planning
Two directors of an investment advisory corporation have been banned from managing corporations for up to 10 years after the Australian Securities and Investments Commiss...
Financial planning
The Ethical Investment Company of Australia (EICA) has signed an agreement with ACTU Member Connect to provide ethical financial planning services to its union members....
Financial planning
As much as US advisers would love exclusive rights to the financial intermediary needs of all Americans, the reality is that with a fast-growing and profitable customer b...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...