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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged investors to avoid Connaught Investment Group....

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Tools & guides

The option of using a record of advice has been available to financial advisers for a number of years. Samantha Hills clears confusion as to why planners would use one, w...

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Financial planning

The rise of the younger, more affluent woman may present a golden opportunity for financial advisers looking to diversify their current client base....

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Funds management

The founder of Count Financial, Barry Lambert, has been awarded Money Management’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2012....

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Financial planning

Despite the largest institutions holding almost half the market share, the financial planning industry remains highly competitive, according to a report published by IBIS...

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Financial planning

More clients would prefer their planner picked up the phone, while two in five don't even perceive they use the services of a planner, according to a Leap of Faith survey...

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Editorial

There is considerable asset allocation bias with SMSF trustees. This is likely to lead to disappointing performance at best, and widespread disasters at worst, according ...

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Financial planning

Australian investor sentiment has hit one of its lowest points, according to the latest Wealth Insights Investor Sentiment Index....

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Financial planning

Morningstar division Ibbotson Associates Australia has gained an implemented consulting mandate from NEO Financial Solutions....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Chartered Accountants has urged the Government to move on the deductibility of financial advice in the May Budget....

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Financial planning

The online publisher Trident Press has removed a number of claims on its websites after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found they were "likel...

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People & Products

Towers Watson has appointed Danny Howell as head of wealth management for Asia to boost the company's advisory services to wealth management clients....

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Editorial

When clients fail to do their bit in the client-adviser relationship, financial planners are often blamed for unfavourable outcomes. Col Fullagar proposes a way to avoid ...

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Financial planning

Market volatility is changing the way financial advisers structure their clients' retirement income and the advice they are offering around it. Benjamin Levy reports on t...

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Financial planning

As the financial planning industry moves towards a fee-for-service environment, there is a pressing need to ensure clients understand exactly what they are paying for, ac...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

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....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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