ADVICE

Financial planning

The regulatory overreach placed on the industry has led to poor outcomes for advice clients and regulators need to start trusting the industry again, an adviser believes....

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator’s financial advice hub aims to be a single repository to help industry participants more easily find information....

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Financial planning

The changes in advice-led business model are forcing asset managers to respond to a growing direct market....

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Financial planning

The affordability of advice issue can be solved through technology and MoneyGPS believes its tech can bridge the unmet advice gap for Australians who cannot afford compre...

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Financial planning

The advice industry is “antiquated” in how it functions and direct investors who cannot access advice are an “accident potentially waiting to happen”, according to a pane...

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Financial planning

The Profession of Independent Financial Advisers says it is in the late stages of getting approval to be an “officially-recognised” professional standards body by the Pro...

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Financial planning

Digital hybrid advice is an answer for Australians excluded from advice due to high costs and for those who do not have ‘complex advice needs’....

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Financial planning

Already making up a fraction of complaints, complaints about advisers have fallen 33% in the 2021/22 financial year so far, according to the Australian Financial Complain...

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Financial planning

Advice industry associations have replied to an expert’s calls for research into whether regulatory change in the advice industry has influenced suicide rates....

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Financial planning

The transition phase to retirement has been identified as the stage of life when financial planners add most value to a client, according to research....

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Financial planning

Research conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has found advisers played a crucial role in crisis intervention, according to Griffith Business School....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to incorporate drivers of satisfaction into the advice process and portfolio construction decisions, according to a study....

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Financial planning

One of the most important ways to measure the success of the advice is the number of clients who have acted on advice given, according to Industry Fund Services....

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Expert Analysis

Financial advisers want to help their clients’ wellbeing and achieve their dreams but are struggling how to document their achievements, writes Santiago Burridge....

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Financial planning

Including one day a year pro bono work as continuing professional development could help to reduce the advice gap and boost the advice industry’s reputation within the co...

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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 ...

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

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

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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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