FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

The latest FSCP outcome has been issued for a problem relating to Statements of Advice, the second relating to this matter in a month. ...

Financial planning

Rather than looking at high-net-worth CBD advice firms, one Queensland practice is looking to expand nationally via acquiring regional firms with strong client pipelines....

Financial planning

A female adviser has shared how financial advice firms can be more appealing to female clients who may feel intimidated by a male-dominated industry....

Financial planning

Almost half of financial services businesses are being sold for cash with sales of up to $8 million, significantly reducing the time taken for parties to transact....

Financial planning

An award-winning female adviser has shared how advice firms can better support their female staff and make the workplace a more accommodating environment, as only a small...

Financial planning

InvestSMART is positioning its business to be a leading digital wealth and advice platform in Australia as it launches its own white label online investing platform....

Funds management

Investors are suffering from decision paralysis with the volume of choice available, according to the CEO of Morningstar, and the industry would be wise to improve their ...

Financial planning

Adviser Ratings has entered a strategic partnership with Numerisk to introduce a professional indemnity insurance solution, aimed at opening up adviser supply and improvi...

Financial planning

The Federal Court has ruled financial advice licensee RM Capital failed to take reasonable steps to prevent its authorised representative from accepting conflicted remune...

Features

Retaining new entrants in the advice industry as they complete their Professional Year is a key focus for advice firms in 2024, with younger generations increasingly valu...

Financial planning

Insignia Financial has reported an NPAT loss of $49 million in the first half of FY24 driven by strategic transformation costs and remediation payments....

People & Products

Wealth management firm LGT Crestone has appointed an investment adviser to its Adelaide office as the firm focuses on the evolving high-net-worth market in the state....

Financial planning

Sarah Abood, chief executive of the FAAA, believes 2024 will be the year that meaningful regulatory changes are clarified and delivered by regulators to the financial adv...

Financial planning

Australian consumers say they are more likely to seek retirement advice from a financial adviser or their super fund, the FSC reveals, demonstrating a distrust of governm...

Financial planning

DASH has reported investment platform FUA growth of 46.9 per cent for 2023, largely driven by advisers adopting the software....

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3 months ago

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 suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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