BUYER OF LAST RESORT

Financial planning

Justice Mark Moshinsky has ruled a timeline for mediation between AMP Financial Planning and Equity Financial Planners to begin, and a former planner has called for the f...

Financial planning

The Advisers Association has expressed disappointment at AMP’s decision to appeal the BOLR verdict while AMP’s Matt Lawler says he hopes mediation will reach “an outcome ...

Financial planning

AMP has announced this morning that it intends to appeal the verdict of its Buyer of Last Resort class action....

Financial planning

AMP Limited has acknowledged the major hit taken to its public reputation but holds hopes that it can restore trust in around three years....

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Financial planning

The buyer of last resort process is more complicated than advisers might expect as some licensees are focusing on where they can manoeuvre away from the agreed valuation,...

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Policy & Regulation

Melbourne-based lawyer, Dan Mackay, argues that AMP is on far from firm legal ground in its approach to advisers and Buyer of Last Resort....

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Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning Association members prepared for class action on AMP’s BOLR changes....

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Financial planning

The 'weaponisation of compliance' is bringing up wider problems with licensees, not just a few individual bad apples. ...

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has sought to protect itself against further buyer of last resort surprises by building in key caveats covering key market and governance policy changes....

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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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Financial planning

The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has signalled how it intends reshaping its adviser network with productivity and professionalism trumping actual adviser numbers....

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Financial planning

A number of AMP financial planners have been calling on their representatives to press the company for pre-Royal Commission valuations to be applied to Buyer of Last Reso...

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Financial planning

An end to grandfathered commissions in 2021 has proved the final straw for many financial planners who were still debating their future in the industry, according to prel...

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Financial planning

IOOF has sought to ensure the retention of newly-acquired ANZ aligned advisers by offering participation in an ‘Adviser Recognition Program’ with vesting heavily reliant ...

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

3 hours 34 minutes ago
JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

4 hours 1 minute ago
PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

4 hours 43 minutes 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 2 weeks 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 1 week ago

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

9 months 3 weeks ago