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Financial planning

The Centrelink Home Equity Access Scheme has been identified as a possible advice option for advisers, having previously been thought of as a credit product which require...

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Financial planning

Adding personal advice to Centrelink’s bulk billing framework is among recommendations put to the Quality of Advice Review by a founding member of the Financial Planning ...

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Superannuation

The Government will allow financially-stressed individuals to access tax-free of up to $10,000 of their superannuation in 2019-20 and a further $10,000 in 2020-21....

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Tools & guides

A key concern with the move to an aged care home is having enough money to fund costs, writes Minh Ly, but strategies can be used to help clients maximise their cashflow....

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People & Products

AMP has upgraded its Retirement Modelling Tool to model 900 annuity combinations, account-based pensions and Centrelink income, and stress test retirement strategies by r...

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Financial planning

An ageing population and the end of the financial year period is seeing more people consider funeral bonds, which are exempt from Centrelink assets tests....

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Financial planning

ASIC finds consumer leases market is failing low income earners and can be a very expensive household goods option....

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

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

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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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