PETER JOHNSTON

Financial planning

Organisations have welcomed the election of Anthony Albanese as the next Prime Minister with the hope he will provide greater certainty for advisers after legislative cha...

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Financial planning

The industry is tired of reviews being passed onto third-parties, according to an industry expert, and advice must be separated from product for the review to be successf...

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Financial planning

The introduction of robo-advice is as conflicted as vertical integration and has not been successful anywhere in the world, according to the Association of Independently ...

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Policy & Regulation

It has asked whether Senator Jane Hume’s and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s pre-political careers in the banking industry create a conflict of interest....

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Financial planning

As they make up only a fraction of complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, advisers should not be relied on to fund the compensation scheme of last r...

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Financial planning

Product and advice should be kept separate, and advisers should not be responsible for product failure, according to an association....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator is only putting the brakes on terminating grandfathered commissions because consumers have started to realise the cost of advice has escalated due...

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals has hired a QC with the intent of arguing before the High Court that proposals to ban grandfathered revenue...

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals this morning sent out a report outlining the potential impact of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics...

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) has called on advisers to petition the Government regarding FASEA’s reforms by utilising support fr...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

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

2 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

1 week 3 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

2 weeks 1 day ago

ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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