FINANCIAL ADVICE

Superannuation

How financial advisers should be monitored by superannuation trustees is among issues raised by a regulatory thematic review of outsourcing in super....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released its half-yearly data on financial advice misconduct cases and enforcement outcomes....

Financial planning

Australian Retirement Trust has introduced new financial advice fee caps, coming into effect for Australian Retirement Trust Super Savings and QSuper accounts from 15 Aug...

Financial planning

Australia’s strict regulatory definitions are hampering its development of financial advice versus other markets such as the US and UK, according to Vanguard....

Financial planning

Netwealth research outlines how advisers can market their services to the Established Affluent, those wealthy older Australians representing $4.1 trillion in household we...

Financial planning

Moving to Letters of Advice, abolishing safe harbour steps to comply with best interest duty and indexing the wholesale assets test are among proposals made by the Financ...

Financial planning

Ignition Advice has highlighted the importance of digital advice adoption if the advice industry wants to address the advice gap and deliver on the Quality of Advice Revi...

Financial planning

There needs to be mechanisms in place to encourage Australians to understand investment risks they are taking and to consider other forms of protection, industry associat...

Financial planning

In the move by firms to delegate away low-value tasks, technology is improving but still struggles to keep pace with all the various parts of financial advice....

Financial planning

Advisers need to leave the noise of 2021 in the past and focus on growth, recruitment, and building efficiencies in their businesses, according to Countplus....

Financial planning

The selling price of financial planning businesses has increased for the first time in 13 years with demand for older clients and complete licensee groups of 50 to 200 au...

Financial planning

If elected, a Labor government would assume that a decade of experience was worth at least a degree and would scrap the degree requirement for those advisers....

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator’s financial advice hub aims to be a single repository to help industry participants more easily find information....

Financial planning

Advisers giving limited advice will need to explain what advice they cannot provide and the implications to fulfil best interests duty....

Financial planning

The registration of financial advisers under the Better Advice Act will occur in two stages with the second commencing once the register transitions to the Australian Tax...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 4 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 2 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

6 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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