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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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...

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Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...

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AMP has settled on two court proceedings: one class action which affected superannuation members and a second regarding insurer policies. ...

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The inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and broader wealth management companies by the Senate economics references committee will not be re-adopted. ...

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