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Financial planning

The financial advice business has expanded its range of services with the introduction of Apt Wealth Legal Services to meet clients’ evolving needs in estate planning and...

Policy & Regulation

Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

Policy & Regulation

The Law Council of Australia has urged the Government that it needs to amend proposed new financial product design and distribution laws to exclude intervention in produc...

People & Products

Publicly-listed litigation funder, Bentham IMF has announced a new initiative to finance bankruptcies and financial restructurings backed by new hires....

Superannuation

Auto-consolidation of multiple superannuation accounts can have significant unintended consequences including denying fund members access to crucial insurance cover, acc...

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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...

3 months 1 week ago

Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...

4 months ago

It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...

4 months 1 week ago

AMP has agreed in principle to settle an advice and insurance class action that commenced in 2020 related to historic commission payment activity. ...

5 days 8 hours ago

Advice firms are increasing their base salaries by as much as $50k to attract talent, particularly seeking advisers with a portable book of clients, but equity offerings ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

ASIC has released the results of the latest financial adviser exam, held in November 2025....

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