FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Senator Jane Hume announced the FSC Life Insurance Summit that Treasury will assume control, merging it with the quality of advice review....

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Expert Analysis

Providing financial advice has managed to stand the test of time, writes Michael Pillemer, despite the rollercoaster of changes which have affected the industry in recent...

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Financial planning

The relief measure allowing advisers to provide a record of advice rather than a statement of advice to clients that needed advice due to the impact of COVID-19 has been ...

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Financial planning

Responding to adviser submissions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is considering providing regulatory relief so that advisers can p...

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People & Products

Link Group’s partnership with the fintech firm aims to help customers prepare for retirement through affordable financial advice and to help them through their Age Pensio...

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Financial planning

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

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Financial planning

Four former IOOF-licensed firms, four of them Bridges operatives, have moved home to Count Financial....

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Financial planning

Ezzat-Daniel Nesseim has been charged with 16 offences and the corporate regulator alleged that he gave false answers and information under oath....

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People & Products

The offering is a phone-based conversation to cover super contributions, insurance, and investments for AMP’s Super Directions Fund members....

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Life/Risk

In a similar way to mortgage brokers, life/risk advisers are going to have to make their case if they want to retain commission-based remuneration structures....

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Policy & Regulation

A senior Federal Opposition frontbencher has fired a shot over the bows of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission warning that well-intentioned legislation ...

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Financial planning

The annual renewal will lead to unintended consequences which will have negative implications for financial advice practices and flow on effects in terms of extra cost an...

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Financial planning

CountPlus boss, Matthew Rowe, has forewarned shareholders to be ready to feel the revenue effects of the removal of grandfathering and product rebates but has claimed the...

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Financial planning

Almost one-in-two licensees are handing it back within five years and active advice is likely the only viable business model, according to Encore Advisory Group....

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Financial planning

A major superannuation group wants amendments which would see advisers empowered to agree the scope of advice with clients upfront....

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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 ...

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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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