ZACH CASTLES

Features

2022 is set to have less compliance and regulatory activity, writes Zach Castles, leaving advisers with more time to focus on helping consumers and improving their busine...

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Financial planning

The cost to produce advice is around $5,335 but the average adviser is charging $3,660 and removing safe harbour and strengthening the code of ethics will reduce the cost...

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Financial planning

The roles of the adviser and licensee may need to be more clearly defined for the individual adviser registration regime to properly function. ...

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Expert Analysis

Financial Services Council policy manager – advice, Zach Castles, argues that regulatory pragmatism can help reduce the cost of financial advice....

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Features

The Financial Services Council’s Zach Castles makes the argument for pulling down the barriers to the delivery of scalable advice....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council is pushing a scaled advice model to help offset the exodus of advisers....

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

2 months ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

2 months ago

SuperRatings has shared the median estimated return for balanced superannuation funds for the calendar year 2024, finding the year achieved “strong and consistent positiv...

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Original bidder Bain Capital, which saw its first offer rejected in December, has returned with a revised bid for Insignia Financial....

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The FAAA has secured CSLR-related documents under the FOI process, after an extended four-month wait, which show little analysis was done on how the scheme’s cost would a...

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