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Superannuation

More people are working past retirement age and concessional contributions have dropped among older workers, placing unwanted pressure on the superannuation outcomes of m...

Funds management

The gatekeeper role that platforms play in determining which investments are easily available presents a huge challenge for the direct property sector....

Superannuation

Newly appointed AMP SMSF executive Peter Burgess explains that assessing suitability and explaining risks is the key to good SMSF advice....

Life/Risk

AMP has introduced big changes to its insurance range in response to the changing way advisers do business....

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund trustees have shied away from cash due to falling interest rates but stayed close to defensive and low-risk assets, shifting funds into fixed inte...

Editorial

AMP has driven solid cashflows out of its platform acquisitions, but planning firm flows prove patchy....

Superannuation

AMP Capital is investing significant resources in developing products specifically for SMSFs and is currently looking to recruit an executive to focus on this area....

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services ends its run as licence cancelled under voluntary administration....

Superannuation

New white paper points to planning opportunities and a problematic vertically-integrated model....

Financial planning

Warning that FOFA fee disclosure requirements will create more problems than they fix....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has reassumed its position at the top of the Wealth Insights platform rankings. ...

Financial planning

Consumers are displaying less signs of stress in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest data released by Dun & Bradstreet as part of its Consumer Financi...

Funds management

Ratings house, Standard & Poor’s has been targeted for litigation in the wake of proposed Lehman settlement with Australian councils....

Financial planning

With ASIC delaying its work on a financial planner training framework, progress on raising the bar on education seems to be stuck in limbo, writes Tim Stewart....

Financial planning

AMP-owned dealer group ipac is is looking to further tap into the accumulator client segment by building advice capabilities to support this market. ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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 1 week 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 6 days ago

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

3 weeks 1 day ago

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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