FINANCIAL ADVICE

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The Commonwealth Bank has asserted it is ahead of schedule in reviewing the advice given by five former advisers and in assessing what compensation may be payable....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has had additional license conditions imposed on Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom and is facing having to compensate the clients...

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Editorial

The cost of delivering financial advice has increased dramatically over the past 10 years largely owed to scandals and the belief of politicians that increased regulation...

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Financial planning

Brand and marketing is a core asset and function that needs to be integrated into financial advice firms as trust in the industry has never been lower, according to a bra...

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Financial planning

Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has confirmed the company’s financial advisers are encouraged to sell BT Life products and he makes no apologies for the shape of t...

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Financial planning

Madison Financial Group CEO, Annick Donat has warned the AFA’s advice competency framework research should not be exploited for commercial gains....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has continued its public image rehabilitation strategy by claiming to have removed the sales culture from the incentive program offered to tellers a...

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Financial planning

Senior Australians are increasingly turning to planners for retirement incomes advice....

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Financial planning

The lift in education standards across the financial services industry has created a short supply in financial adviser and paraplanner candidates, according to Hays....

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Financial planning

Advisers may be unaware their TPB registration expires at the end of October, warning them they may put their business at risk....

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Features

Paul Harding-Davis looks at the five retirement transition phases now that he is approaching the ‘sunset’ of his life....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former financial adviser of Wilson Advisory and Stockbroking after his conduct led to trading in exchange traded options on two clients' accounts withou...

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Financial planning

ASIC’s new cost recovery levy could reduce the services licensees offer if they cannot afford to pay multiple levies, according to The Fold Legal....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has claimed that many advisers are still wondering why they have been entangled in the Tax Agent Service Act regime....

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Financial planning

Changes to LRBA arrangements have topped adviser queries but no immediate change is required in strategies just yet, according to BT Advice Technical....

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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...

5 months ago

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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