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Financial planning

Improvements to advice delivery solutions may assist financial advisers in running a smoother business, but it can also pull them away from their core proposition of prov...

Top 100

OnePath's Trauma Premier cover has taken out this year’s Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Award for trauma products....

Top 100

OnePath has remained at the top of the insurance game over the past 12 months and has again been named Money Management/Dexx&r's Risk Company of the Year....

Financial planning

A former WealthSure financial adviser has appeared in court facing 22 fraud charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Superannuation

Where an SMSF has bought property, the break-up of assets may be problematic during a divorce, explains Michael Hallinan....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has alleged in court that a South Australian adviser misappropriated $3.1 million in client funds....

Financial planning

Independent superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac has announced a new pricing model aimed at attracting financial adviser interest....

Policy & Regulation

The ATO has been urged to treat the provision of advice within super equally across types of funds....

Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

Life/Risk

Allen Iu writes that the communication evolution is changing the way the life insurance industry connects with customers – and could help us solve the underinsurance prob...

Financial planning

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has upgraded its consumer-facing website in a move it says is designed to help Australians make informed financial decisions....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....

Life/Risk

ClearView has posted positive results for the 2011/2012 financial year after extending its reach into the life insurance and wealth management markets....

Financial planning

Macquarie has renamed the COIN financial planning software and sold its institutional software licence to home in on the IFA market....

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