FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has endorsed the drive to raise the financial planning education bar, however, CEO Richard Klipin said theoretical knowledge m...

Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a NSW financial adviser from providing financial services for 10 years after finding he failed to disclose...

Financial planning

The Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen, said any future regulatory change will be guided by the need to provide high quality f...

Financial planning

According to the results of a recent shadow shop, consumers steer away from in-house bank planners when it comes to financial advice....

Financial planning

IFSA's super charter alters fee structures for advice and changes the ground rules on advertising....

Financial planning

The chairman of the parliamentary inquiry into the financial services industry believes that while the payment links between product providers, advisers and clients are ‘...

Editorial

The Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA) sponsorship of research by KPMG and Econotech that defines the value of financial advice was both necessary and...

Superannuation

The financial services industry has been called upon to step up to its social obligations when dealing with trustees of self-managed superannuation funds....

Financial planning

According to Lifeplan Funds Management's Financial Advice Satisfaction Index, the perception that portfolio performance is due to financial advice has increased by 9 per ...

Financial planning

The proposed deal between AMP and AXA Asia Pacific could see AMP as the dominant force in the financial planning marketplace, with the number of AMP-aligned planners doub...

Editorial

If one thing has been made clear in our examination of platforms and wraps in Money Management, it is that financial planning operates within a highly commercial and, th...

Financial planning

ASIC has defined the number of clients lost by financial planners last financial year....

Financial planning

New IFSA commissioned research has confirmed not only the value financial advice delivers to individuals but also to the broader Australian economy....

Financial planning

The Australian Bankers Association has called for greater clarity on what represents advice with respect to superannuation....

Financial planning

AXA has defended the role of financial planning in superannuation, but it embraces UK proposals based on 'independent' and 'restricted' advisers....

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6 months ago

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

6 months 1 week ago

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

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Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

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Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

3 weeks ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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