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Financial planning

AFSLs could risk breaching their compliance obligations should they choose to employ someone with a conviction or bankruptcy, and should consider the nature of the offenc...

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Superannuation

Superannuation should be reviewed every five years in line with the Intergenerational Report and needs to be removed from the annual Budget cycle, the SMSF Association be...

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Funds management

Fullerton’s wholly foreign-owned enterprise has been granted a private fund management licence in China....

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Funds management

Centuria Capital has increased funds under management by 118 per cent to$4.2 billion during FY17....

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Features

The Government has opted to go with a ‘one stop shop’ approach to financial services external dispute resolution, but there is the real prospect of higher costs being imp...

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Superannuation

The number of SMSF trustees with unmet financial advice needs continues to grow in 2017, according to Vanguard/Investment Trends SMSF Reports....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry is already a profession and it does not need the community to accept it for it to be a profession, according to Fiducian’s Indy Singh. ...

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Financial planning

The majority of Australians have not seen a financial adviser despite mounting concerns about their retirement as they feel it is only for the wealthy....

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Financial planning

While advisers may want to switch platforms, a practice’s choice of platform relies on the relationship with the BDM....

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Financial planning

While managed accounts, robo-advice, and scaled advice will be the norm by 2022, advice practices need to think about what disrupters are next, Netwealth believes....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is strongly opposing a compensation scheme of last resort but wants product manufactures, research houses and others to pay if it becom...

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Superannuation

A victims’ group affected by the Trio Capital fraud have alleged incompetence by ASIC in failing to hold to account criminals involved in the fraud case....

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Financial planning

Industry submissions have revealed the level of self-managed superannuation fund industry concerns around the Government’s proposed changes to LRBA arrangements....

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Life/Risk

CommInsure has told a Parliamentary Committee it has a clean bill of health with respect to allegations over missing or altered documents within its Medical Officers Refe...

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Financial planning

Successful advice businesses are built on genuine concern for people, Mentor Education believes....

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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