ADVICE

Financial planning

There will be more advice practices popping up to service clients that only want once-off advice and those practices need to invest in technology to lower the cost of adv...

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Financial planning

As advisers are steadily continuing to exit the industry leaving more advice roles in supply, practices will need to offer work flexibility and a desirable culture to lur...

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Financial planning

When it comes to retirement planning of mid-life clients, financial advisers should look to simplify decision-making and transitional career work, according to Full Time ...

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Expert Analysis

The proliferation of retail investors entering the market during the COVID-19 induced downturn has highlighted the value that can be demonstrated by seeking financial adv...

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Editorial

Thousands of low-balance, high maintenance clients are being orphaned in the wash-up of what is emerging as significant failure by successive governments to understand th...

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Financial planning

Count Financial is continuing to build its adviser numbers, this time recruiting former Fitzpatrick’s aligned Sydney-based StrategyOne....

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Financial planning

Advisers on maternity leave, paternity or otherwise looking to work part-time are being offered a flexible fee model by Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

Senator Jane Hume announced the FSC Life Insurance Summit that Treasury will assume control, merging it with the quality of advice review....

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Financial planning

A new Financial Services Council green paper has suggested that a moral risk will emerge if self-licensed advisers are allowed to proliferate in the absence of dealer gro...

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Features

COVID-19 has been a catalyst for technological change in the industry but, Chris Dastoor writes, a major issue remains in how technology can address the accessibility of ...

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Financial planning

When it comes to selling a financial advice business, firms with investment and superannuation clients in their early sixties can attract the highest multiples....

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Financial planning

Instead of allowing a race to the bottom in terms of the cost of providing advice, financial advisers should be accurately assessing what their advice is worth and chargi...

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Financial planning

Some platforms have been contacting clients about potential advice fee changes without the knowledge of their adviser, according to WealthO2....

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Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance has emerged as a financial advice bridgehead for UK advice technology firm, Intelliflo....

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Financial planning

A major superannuation group wants amendments which would see advisers empowered to agree the scope of advice with clients upfront....

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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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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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