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The AFA has a new focus on adaptive practices for advisers entering the new financial year and will incorporate a new framework for financial advice....

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Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has defended her organisation's role in pursuing the Life Insurance Framework pointing to the unsustainability of...

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Former BT Group Licensees executive, Steven Browning, has launched The Strategy Institute, which will offer consulting services and online learning resources....

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Australia’s HNWI population has increased 3.5 per cent during 2014-2015 to a total population of 226,400, according to Capgemini....

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More CFOs are hiring interim managers to save on costs, reflecting a labour market that is seeing increasing part-time work due to employer uncertainty. ...

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There was nothing to be gained for the Government by mandating the LIF, and the FSC must have initiated the changes to the framework, a financial planner said. ...

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ASIC rules that rating financial products constitutes providing financial product advice....

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Industry super fund, Cbus, has launched an in-house financial advice service model and will expand its over-the-phone advice offering later this year....

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Property investors are increasing purchasing established properties with two or more bedrooms, according to Mortgage Choice. ...

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Advisers need to hold their clients to account with their personal ad-hoc record keeping, so they don’t exceed the contribution caps. ...

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A group of risk advisers have labelled FSC’s positioning on LIF as cartel behaviour, and said the industry should have gone to the ACCC with its life insurance propositio...

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An ageing population and the end of the financial year period is seeing more people consider funeral bonds, which are exempt from Centrelink assets tests....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 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 ...

5 months 4 weeks ago

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

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

3 weeks ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

3 weeks 5 days ago

The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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