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AN ALLIANCE of high-net-worth investors has launched a stinging criticism of the quality of the financial advice they receive and accused financial planners of being tain...

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Snowball Financial Planning has secured its third arrangement to provide financial services and advice to an employer group in the last month, announcing today that it is...

Financial planning

Macquarie Town Financial Planning director, John Michael Higgins, has been restrained by a Supreme Court injunction from providing financial products or services advice, ...

Financial planning

THE number of complaints lodged against planners has risen dramatically over the last year, with inappropriate advice the most common complaint....

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ANY discussion of estate planning or risk insurance routinely brings out the term ‘holistic planning’....

Financial planning

Would you like to get to know your clients, intimately? As tempting as it sounds, the truth is that most financial planners don’t. Except, that is, for Carolyn Berezovzky...

Financial planning

AT A RECENT Financial Planning Association (FPA) lunch held in Sydney, the head of the Australian Consumer Association (ACA) Louise Sylvan said the benchmark level of und...

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Money Management has conducted an impromptu poll of the financial services sector, asking key stakeholders for their opinions on the new Financial Services Reform Act (FS...

Financial planning

CHIFLEY Financial Planning and Monitor Money have finalised a deal in which $100 million of Chifley client files have been sold to Monitor Money for $4.25 million....

Financial planning

Futuro Financial Service, a Queensland financial planning firm has unveiled an ambitious growth program in a bid to become a leading financial planning group boosting its...

Financial planning

Just over a week ago, on June 11, the long awaited and much feted Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) passed the three month mark since it became a law and ended the lon...

Financial planning

Financial planners could soon be linking up with Government agencies to provide financial advice to low income clients, according to Liberal Senator Ian Campbell....

Financial planning

Many financial planners are still unaware they could face hefty fines or even jail terms for not providing ‘wholistic, appropriate or reasonable’ advice to their clients ...

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Last year the industry was abuzz with discussion centred around a paper called Hypercompetition. Now, as JASON SPITS writes, a follow-up report has been released and the ...

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Corporate superannuation fund Telstra Super has set up an in-house financial planning arm for its member base....

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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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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