FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Imminent changes to lift requirements on MDA operators by ASIC including the removal of a no action letter will disrupt advice businesses using limited MDA arrangements. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former Queensland AMP Financial Planner representative from providing financial services for providing inappropriate advice and borrowing cl...

Financial planning

ASIC’s guidance of digital advice should apply to all financial advisers because of the way financial advice businesses are structured, lawyers believe....

Financial planning

While low fees are at the bottom of the priority list when investors pick a financial adviser, only 33 per cent of investors completely understand how they pay their advi...

Financial planning

A former Allianz financial adviser has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, while ASIC has permanently banned her after she was caught allegedly stealing clients’ ...

Editorial

The Federal Court may have found that Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis breached their duties as directors of Storm Financial but the issues around the Storm collapse are big...

Financial planning

Financial advice and wealth advisory group, Omniwealth, has purchased a mortgage broking business to expand its mortgage services, on the back of increased demand. ...

Editorial

Eric Blewitt points to the benefits of social media for financial advisers and listening to the questions, not the answers....

Editorial

There can be no doubting how many life/risk advisers remain aggrieved by the LIF outcome, but bi-partisan Parliamentary support means there is no unscrambling the omelett...

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities Limited representative from providing financial services for five years for inappropriate advice and engaging in unauthorised ...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former NSW insurance company director, Timothy Pratten, from providing financial services and from engaging in credit activities....

Financial planning

Forty-one per cent of working age Australians have not received any financial advice to prepare for retirement, according to HSBC....

Editorial

Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Brad Fox, argues that planners will need to become increasingly adaptive to cope with the rapid rate of change occurrin...

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?...

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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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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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. ...

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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...

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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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