FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Dealer groups have been an integral part of the financial planning industry but do they remain relevant in a post-FOFA increasingly technological world?...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers who promise to provide ongoing portfolio monitoring services but fail to do so face liability if the client suffers financial loss....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Sydney-based general product advice provider, Etern Wisdom, for breaching both its obligations and its licence conditions. ...

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Financial planning

Industry super fund, Cbus, has launched an in-house financial advice service model and will expand its over-the-phone advice offering later this year....

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Tools & guides

Financial advice is more than picking stocks or managed funds and advisers need to understand the different services that are important to their clients, Matt Walsh write...

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Financial planning

CFS has introduced online tools to enable instant set-up of client accounts and will launch various managed accounts solutions on its wrap....

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Features

Decisions regarding tax this financial year have a lot to do with the upcoming federal election and possible legislative changes. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can b...

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Financial planning

ASIC will closely monitor robo-advice and the industry could start to see cases of non-compliance in the next 12 to 18 months as a result....

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People & Products

Former Federal Labor MP, Bernie Ripoll, has joined the board of robo-advice focus group, Map My Plan as a director....

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Features

Irrespective of the Federal Budget, leverage will remain an important strategy device for both planners and their clients, according to a Money Management roundtable....

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Features

Your typical margin lending client may not be who you expect him/her to be, especially when the pursuit of tax breaks is left out of the equation, according to a Money Ma...

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Features

The global financial crisis and the collapse of Storm Financial placed a spotlight on the need for adviser education and the reality that leverage is not appropriate for ...

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Features

With the blurring of what services financial advisory practices deliver, advisers need to define what drives value in their business to stay on top of their game, David C...

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Features

Advisers could face hefty lawsuits if they are unable to keep pace with regulatory change and capability development. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can avoid legal t...

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Financial planning

The AFA is encouraging advisers to address changing customer preferences to stay ahead of the game. ...

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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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