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Financial planning

A Tasmanian-based insurance agent and financial adviser has been remanded in custody after pleading guilty to 28 charges of fraud relating to more than $1.7 million in cl...

Financial planning

TECHNOLOGY firm Avanteos has enhanced its back-office wealth management software suite with a feature that helps financial planners generate personalised investment strat...

Financial planning

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....

Financial planning

One of the stumbling blocks for the industry in establishing a risk master trust has always been how to get the insurance groups on side. ALLAN BETTS gives an insurance p...

Financial planning

ANY discussion of estate planning or risk insurance routinely brings out the term ‘holistic planning’....

Financial planning

The biggest influence on the back office technology provided to financial planners over the last year had nothing to do with bytes, modems or memory....

Financial planning

A Sydney based financial adviser has been sentenced to 300 hours community service and been handed a 12-month, $1000 good behaviour bond, after being found guilty of acti...

Financial planning

Tribeca Corporation has acquired Resnik Communications for $3.5 million, in a bid to continue its growing professional services operations....

Financial planning

A former Securitor financial planner has been handed down a life ban by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) from acting as a representative of a s...

Financial planning

With the expectation that master trust fees will come down at some point in the future, master trust providers are turning their attention to marketing campaigns as a way...

Financial planning

An adviser who created a fictitious account with his employer, Barton Capital Securities, has been sidelined by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC...

Financial planning

The Ethical Investment Company of Australia (EICA) has opened its second office after 12 months of operation in the Australian business, branching out into the Tasmanian ...

Financial planning

Westpac chief executive officer David Morgan has not ruled out further purchases as part of its wealth management strategy, describing its recent purchase of Rothschild A...

Financial planning

Last year the industry was abuzz with discussion centred around a paper called Hypercompetition. Now, as JASON SPITS writes, a follow-up report has been released and the ...

Financial planning

Administration platforms such as master trusts and wraps do not provide benefits to clients and, in some cases, hide the inefficiencies of the financial planning industry...

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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...

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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 ...

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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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