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Financial planning

One of the Financial System Inquiry’s greatest victories will be setting a path towards a decumulation framework, according to Challenger’s CEO, who said the company has ...

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Editorial

ASIC must do more than simply identify problems when it publishes its forthcoming report on the life/risk industry. It must identify some solutions....

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Financial planning

Commbank Wealth Management head, Annabel Spring says the group will remain focused on its existing strategy....

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Top 100

Wide variations in the number of financial planners reported to be operating in the industry has been a feature of the sector for some years but, as Jason Spits writes, a...

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Top 100

In the wake of recent industry-wide change financial planning numbers appear to have moved little, according to data collected for the Money Management Top 100 Dealer Gro...

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Financial planning

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

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People & Products

Anne Fuchs has moved to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial Officer within the AFA....

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Financial planning

Class action specialists, Shine Lawyers, are investigating claims against Queensland based financial advice firm FTS....

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Policy & Regulation

New research suggests bank-aligned planning groups might suffer if consumers become fully aware of their parentage....

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Financial planning

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Top 100

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the drive for higher educational standards for financial planners has served to regenerate criticism of those people who were grandfathered into t...

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Editorial

Money Management’s 2014 Top 100 Dealer Group research has revealed an industry which has changed substantially since 2007/08 and might be on the cusp of further change. ...

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Financial planning

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

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Top 100

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

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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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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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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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