FINANCIAL ADVISER

People & Products

Mercer has expanded its financial advice team in Western Australia with the appointment of Michael Heffernan, the former head of advice with the Government Employees Supe...

Financial planning

ASIC's 2011/12 annual report has outlined the amount of surveillance and enforcement action the regulator completed in the financial advice sector in the past year....

Financial planning

A PIS adviser has been banned for three years for failing to comply with financial services laws....

Financial planning

The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

Financial planning

While a number of companies rooted in mortgage broking have expanded into financial planning, it is an area of cultural, regulatory and legal challenges....

Life/Risk

New research undertaken by CommInsure has reinforced the long-term implications of the Government's remuneration restrictions around the sale of life/risk insurance withi...

Superannuation

Chan and Naylor's David Hasib urges crackdown on "rogues" promoting and advising on SMSFs....

Financial planning

ASIC has released a consultation paper to determine how a professional code of conduct will obviate the need for a financial adviser to comply with opt-in provisions cont...

Financial planning

For a financial adviser, building a strong marketing capability via social media needs to start with a professional website, something that is now cheaper and less compli...

Editorial

There has been a tendency to forget about the ACCC ever since the regulation of consumer protection in the financial services industry moved to ASIC in 2001. But as Grant...

Financial planning

Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson explores some of the questions clients ask their financial advisers – and provides the answers....

Financial planning

Financial planning firms are increasingly likely to link with mortgage brokers, but the different skill sets, remuneration models and legal interpretations remain a barri...

Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

Financial planning

There is only a week left to nominate Money Management's Financial Planner of the Year (FPOTY) for 2012 as the nominations close on Thursday, 11 October....

Tools & guides

Finametrica founder Paul Resnik argues that risk profiling tools are all very well, but it is a financial adviser's ability to use those tools that really matters....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

8 months 1 week ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

4 weeks ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 6 days ago

Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

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