FINANCIAL ADVICE

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. ...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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....

People & Products

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

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

Female investors and those aged over 45 are more satisfied with their advisers, while those aged over 60 were less satisfied with their adviser’s technical ability. ...

Financial planning

While the majority of investment professionals believe robo-advice will slash advice costs, the jury is still out on whether the industry will be “unambiguously better of...

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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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