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Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has called for changes to be made to the Financial Services Reform Act to ease the burden of compliance on financial planners and make ...
Financial planning
Members of the Financial Planning Association will be expected to separately disclose the cost of advice from the cost of an investment product to their clients from Janu...
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has issued new prudential standards governing the issue of outsourcing that are applicable to life insurance companies, aut...
Financial planning
Westpac Financial Planning has now completed the implementation of its advisory administrative tool known as the Leading Edge Advice Platform....
Financial planning
Pax Financial Group will now operate as part of the Tandem Financial Advice dealer group after relinquishing its own Australian Financial Services Licence....
Superannuation
ING and self-managed super fund service provider Super Concepts have introduced a new instrument called One2super to help financial advisers provide better services to th...
Financial planning
ING Financial Planning and ING’s largest dealer group, RetireInvest, will be combining their back-office operations from January, next year....
Financial planning
The recent enforceable undertaking imposed on AMP Financial Planning by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has potentially made compliance with financia...
Financial planning
A new Sydney-based boutique funds management group called Pinnacle Investment Management has been established by Wilson HTM Investment Group and will be headed up by form...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...