FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Increasing compliance burden, technology advancements, fee scrutiny, and questions on the benefit of advice have led the industry to lose one-third of advisers over the n...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to be trusted and empowered to use their professional judgement in circumstances where many are highly educated and have years of experience, acco...

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Financial planning

Removing the term ‘general advice’ and renaming intrafund advice and robo-advice to intrafund information and robo information would help reduce the cost of financial adv...

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Financial planning

Advisers need to understand the types of risk specific to retirees and implement strategies to minimise the risk of outliving their savings as two-thirds do not believe t...

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Financial planning

Financial advice misconduct has often been met with overlapping and conflicting requirements creating a reactionary regulatory framework and this is the camel that people...

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Financial planning

A panel has agreed that a hybrid advice model is needed to close the advice gap but the digital side needs to be trusted by the consumer and holding them account to what ...

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Financial planning

Greater access to advice could deliver half a trillion dollars to the Australian economy, while reducing Age Pension spend and increasing incomes, according to research f...

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Expert Analysis

Andrew Walsh explores what trends have disrupted financial advice this year and how the sector is proving resilient in the face of change....

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Financial planning

Having moved to outsource paraplanning and expanded its life/risk approved product list, AMP is flagging a significant advice strategy update next week. ...

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Financial planning

Providing simple financial advice should not need best interest duty as the amount of risk a consumer would take is low and unlikely to be against their interests, accord...

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Financial planning

The deregulation minister should be present at financial services meetings to start reducing red tape and the sooner red tape has been reduced the better, according to a ...

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Policy & Regulation

Ex-Synchron adviser Anthony Vivian Dick dishonestly used $1.1 million from his clients’ accounts which was spent on items including a $72,000 boat....

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Expert Analysis

The focus on sustainable investments, from investors and regulators, has reached a tipping point. This provides both challenges and opportunities for financial advisers, ...

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Financial planning

Independent financial advisers aligned with MLC Wealth will have access to up to $10,000 to help them transition to IOOF, but it is in no way a ‘sign-on bonus’ according ...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator is extending temporary relief for financial advice and capital raisings due to the continuing uncertain impact of COVID-19....

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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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