ADVISERS

Financial planning

Former investment manager linked to failed superannuation fund Trio Capital, Tony Maher, was sentenced to 25 months jail for financial gain through misleading statements....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should be taking advantage of new technologies to market their services to clients....

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Financial planning

Austock looks to Aged Care Income Tested Fees with new product...

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Financial planning

Financial advice clients were charged an average of $1800 each in fees last year, largely due to the growing basket of products they were sold by advisers and brokers, re...

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Editorial

ETFs lay in the shadow of other investment vehicles for almost a decade, but the last two years have seen their value skyrocket. Could it have anything to do with regulat...

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Life/Risk

Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...

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Financial planning

ANZ's OnePath has upgraded its OneCare insurance offering based on adviser feedback...

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Funds management

The role of a business development manager (BDM) was not even in Greg Bird's thoughts until 2011, when he was approached by Lifeplan Funds Management for the Victoria/Tas...

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Financial planning

Ironbark looks to extend digital footprint with key marketing appointment....

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Superannuation

Morningstar will launch an Approved Share List for SMSF advisers dealing with rapid growth of the sector....

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Financial planning

Questions are being raised over financial advisers’ focus on traditional products, with a survey showing more than half of respondents viewed specialist risk as a priorit...

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Financial planning

Advisers have been encouraged to incorporate limited managed discretionary accounts (MDAs) into their suite of services before the corporate regulator moves. ...

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Financial planning

Provisio Technologies has announced the introduction of a range of new tools designed to increase engagement between financial advisers and clients. ...

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Financial planning

Almost one in three clients are considering leaving their adviser, with a lack of face-to-face contact often the kiss of death, a survey found. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Advisers believe the FOFA reforms are a now only a distraction from delivering quality client services and building their personal brand, a recent survey by the Advice Le...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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