PHIL ANDERSON

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

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Financial planning

The findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission cannot be left to go unchallenged in circumstances where the outcome was far from perfect and, in some circumstan...

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Financial planning

The 'weaponisation of compliance' is bringing up wider problems with licensees, not just a few individual bad apples. ...

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Features

Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...

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People & Products

WealthO2 has appointed Phil Anderson as national business development manager to meet growing demand for the company’s adviser platform alternative....

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Features

As advisers battle with the effects of the Banking Royal Commission, education reforms, the banks exiting wealth, and changes to business structures, Hannah Wootton finds...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, of a failure to acknowledge the value of advice and a failure to understand the confl...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has seemingly omitted the ‘Graduate Outcome Statements’, referred to in FPS002 Program and Provider Accreditation Pol...

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Financial planning

While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...

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Financial planning

Experts say the continuing uncertainty and fear surrounding the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s future requirements has adviser sentiment unsurprisingl...

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People & Products

Stanford Brown has hired a senior business development manager as demand for managed accounts grows. ...

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has warned of a looming pause in the authorisation of new financial planners as a result of the implementati...

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Expert Analysis

Banning grandfathered commissions without first having a definitive policy objective speaks to ideological and simplistic motivations, writes Phil Anderson....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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The Federal Court has made interim orders to freeze the assets of a managed investment scheme, its responsible entity, and a director....

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