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Legal practitioners specialising in family law could be forced to include trained financial planners into their practices by the end of this year following amendments to ...

Financial planning

The influence of large scale financial institutions in the financial advice market shows no signs of abating. GEORGE LIONDIS reports on Money Management’s second annual l...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has failed in its attempt to include the term ‘financial planner’ in the list of restricted words and expressions in the Financia...

Financial planning

Over the last few years I’ve noticed that industry commentators are focussing on the issue of so called “independence” of advice and then drawing the conclusion that this...

Financial planning

Financial planning group RetireInvest has indicated that this year it will embark on an ambitious growth program to increase it planner numbers from 267 to 310 as well as...

Financial planning

Asking someone who to name a person they consider to be an influential person is not easy, but when the question is narrowed and the aim is to pick the most influential p...

Financial planning

Westpac will trial an account aggregation service for its banking clients as part of a larger strategy to provide financial services online....

Financial planning

Coming to grips with the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act is crucial for those providing education within financial services according to Australian Securities and Inv...

Financial planning

A select group of union approved financial advisers and dealer groups are set to become the unlikely beneficiaries from the much publicised collapse of Ansett....

Financial planning

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Wealth seminar operators are threatening the advice given by financial planners and making it difficult to provide advice in the future, Ipac director and financial plann...

Financial planning

As consumer interest and demand for financial advice widens demographically the industry could move to a tiered advice structure, Fidelity Investments vice chairman Rober...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Assocication (FPA) has called on the Federal Government to enshrine the terms “financial planner” and “financial adviser” in the Financial Services...

Superannuation

Research commissioned by Norwich Union Life has found members of the employed public are greatly in need of superannuation information, with more than eight in 10 saying ...

Accounting

Cutting joint venture deals with financial planners is the best option available for accountants wanting a slice of the action in the financial advice game...

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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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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