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The planning practice of former Financial Planning Association board member Laura Menschik has joined forces with two other boutiques to set up a new business combining f...
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The number of unsolicited offers to investors to buy shares has increased by more than 50 per cent over the past 12 months, according to ASIC commissioner Berna Collier....
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to clarify the position of employers and organisations with respect to talking with employees about the ne...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has given its campaign to raise the quality of financial advice more impetus, announcing the appointment yesterday of a dedicated...
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The Financial Planning Association has struck back at Virgin boss Richard Branson’s attack on financial advisers, accusing the flamboyant English billionaire of “swanning...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully appealed to the South Australian Supreme Court after the Magistrates Court failed to convict a forme...
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Far fewer Australians are seeking financial advice, yet paradoxically they think the standard of that advice has dramatically improved, according to a survey of 25,000 co...
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Four out of every five people who consult a financial planner are satisfied with the advice they receive and most people who avoid seeing a financial planner do so becaus...
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Australians are twice as likely to get information about their finances from the media than they are from professional advisers, a new survey has revealed....
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Advisers have been urged to back a new world standard on financial planning in order to improve the image of the profession in Australia....
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The founder of a Gold Coast-based firm responsible for running a series of wealth creation seminars has consented to orders in the Supreme Court of Queensland that preven...
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Investors are less interested in the fees-versus-commissions debate and much more interested in finding an adviser they can depend on, writes Craig Dunn....
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Retail industry superannuation fund REST is actively examining options for the provision of financial advice to members....
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There are thousands of opportunities waiting for those planners prepared to venture beyond their own backyard, writes David Thomas....
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Melbourne-based financial services group Australian Unity is throwing its weight behind expanding its three year old financial planning arm with plans to increase its adv...
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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 ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...