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....

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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

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...

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...

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...

Financial planning

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

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...

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

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

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...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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

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. ...

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?...

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 5 days ago

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

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