FINANCIAL ADVICE

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Financial advisers play a crucial role in stimulating financial discussions between parent clients and their adult children, shares Findex, as the most significant interg...

Financial planning

Advice firms should be targeting as much as $700,000 per annum per adviser in ongoing advice fees as clients could be willing to pay higher advice fees than advisers are ...

Financial planning

The experience pathway has passed in Parliament today, three months after being introduced....

Financial planning

In a statement to the Senate Economics References Committee, the Financial Advice Association Australia has made recommendations to the corporate regulator to better achi...

Financial planning

Insignia has announced net profit after tax of $51.2 million for FY23, a rise of 39 per cent from the previous year as it announces a strategic refresh with a 'client wel...

Financial planning

Announcing underlying NPAT of $36.5 million in its FY23 results, the firm has reaffirmed its focus on life insurance and will be exiting financial advice and wealth manag...

Financial planning

The statistical agency has officially recognised the financial advice profession by using the occupational terms 'financial adviser/financial planner' as a result of the ...

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AMP chief executive, Alexis George, has shared her thoughts on Insignia’s new ownership model and whether it will follow its footsteps as it expects $50 million in advice...

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As financial advice firms grapple with adviser retention and larger workloads, this coaching firm founder believes leadership programs are integral to support up-and-comi...

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The FAAA has warned advisers to be alert if their clients are in an underperforming super fund as this month’s APRA performance test is increased to certain trustee-direc...

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Tackling issues around inappropriate scoping of advice, the Financial Services and Credit Panel has announced its first ‘written reprimand’. ...

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The victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme run by Sydney conwoman, Melissa Caddick, have received their first payout with further payouts expected....

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AMP has reported half-year results for its advice division as it updates on the next action in the BOLR class action case....

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New research from Findex has revealed that Millennials have the most to gain from ongoing financial advice and could be $664,000 ahead in net assets at 65 than their non-...

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Noting that some QAR recommendations make it “less legally onerous” for banks to provide advice, the industry association said it suspects a lingering interest from these...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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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