FINANCIAL ADVISER

Financial planning

A former adviser who pleaded guilty to misappropriating $1.9 million of clients' funds has had her sentence reduced by almost four years. ...

Life/Risk

Jim Minto tracks how the life insurance industry has evolved, particularly with the advent of new superannuation channels....

Financial planning

A Queensland adviser has been given a hold on a five-year ban from ASIC following a hearing at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal....

Financial planning

FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe, has queried the dearth of practicing planners on FSC/AFA insurance working group....

Financial planning

BTFG moves unilaterally be introducing its own adviser register and providing scope for client feedback and assessment....

Financial planning

After scanning through thousands of Statements of Advice, Katherine Marchant runs through the common mistakes planners make that jeopardise best practice....

Financial planning

Paradigm Wealth Management has almost doubled its funds under management to $350 million following its acquisition of Portfolio Managers....

Financial planning

ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....

Editorial

Restoring confidence in the financial advice profession has become a catch cry for institutions recently, but the reality of the proposal is still a way off, Amelia Const...

Life/Risk

Col Fullagar explores the seldom-mentioned stressors associated with the claims process and their potential fallout....

Financial planning

A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....

Financial planning

A Rockhampton-based financial adviser has been banned from working in the financial services industry for five years....

Financial planning

Planning and accounting indsutry stalwart, Robert MC Brown, argues that hourly rates and flat/fixed fees are the answer for a planning industry mired in conflicted remune...

Superannuation

SMSFs investing in residential property should look for “impartial advice” rather than falling for those looking to make a sale, an accountant and financial adviser firm ...

Superannuation

Almost half the population do not have a proper understanding of insurance within their super, especially generation Y (under 32)....

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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 ago

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

3 weeks 5 days 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 ...

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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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