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Financial planning

Noting that some QAR recommendations make it “less legally onerous” for banks to provide advice, the industry association said it suspects a lingering interest from these...

Financial planning

Professionalisation of the financial advice industry needs to be balanced with the adviser shortage, according to Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, as he co...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals has shared insights from its meetings with the Treasury regarding the Quality of Advice Review, where it st...

Financial planning

Organisations have welcomed the election of Anthony Albanese as the next Prime Minister with the hope he will provide greater certainty for advisers after legislative cha...

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Financial planning

The industry is tired of reviews being passed onto third-parties, according to an industry expert, and advice must be separated from product for the review to be successf...

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals has criticised “elitist” younger advisers who do not support Labor’s proposed education exemption for older...

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Policy & Regulation

It has asked whether Senator Jane Hume’s and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s pre-political careers in the banking industry create a conflict of interest....

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Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals is “cynical” of the Financial Services Councils’ recommendations and believe there are flaws....

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Financial planning

As they make up only a fraction of complaints to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, advisers should not be relied on to fund the compensation scheme of last r...

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Financial planning

Product and advice should be kept separate, and advisers should not be responsible for product failure, according to an association....

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Financial planning

A video detailing the Liberal Government’s “unfair” treatment of financial advisers has been launched and suggest for clients to tell the government to stop supporting ba...

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Policy & Regulation

Any “eligible person” appointed to the panel needs to understand the correct context of the advice in question, according to a Parliamentary submission....

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator is only putting the brakes on terminating grandfathered commissions because consumers have started to realise the cost of advice has escalated due...

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Financial planning

The advice network has said the grandfathered commissions are a legitimate form of income and the ban would increase the cost of advice....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited is facing multiple challenges as a result of its changes to its buyer of last resort arrangements and its signalling of a significant reduction in aligned adv...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

6 days 22 hours ago
Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

6 days 23 hours ago
Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

1 week ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 1 week ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 1 week ago