FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has outlined the regulator's proposed measures to improve the "competency and quality of ad...

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Financial planning

Most prospective Generation X and Y clients do not know what they want to do financially - and they are a market that requires a focus from financial advisers, according ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled a new advertising campaign to promote the value of financial advice and the need for everyday Australians to form...

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Superannuation

The number of SMSFs continues to grow, but the products available to them remain limited....

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Financial planning

ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....

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Financial planning

Opt-in and best-interest reforms are a waste of time and a cost burden, according to Alexis Compliance and Risk Solutions director Christina Kalantzis....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has celebrated 65 years with a new brand....

Financial planning

Angered by the Government's FOFA bill, financial planners have already begun lobbying the key independents in pursuit of crucial amendments....

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Policy & Regulation

Canadian financial planning and life insurance expert Bruce Etherington has compared Australia's current round of Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms to previous ex...

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Editorial

The industry superannuation funds advertising campaign reached such a level in September and early October that it prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and t...

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Financial planning

MLC has created a licensee relationship manager role aimed at improving the licensee experience throughout its aligned adviser network....

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Financial planning

The Government's inclusion of an annual disclosure on all financial advisers in its FOFA bills seriously breaches understanding around the legislation....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition will seek to have the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) bills sent to a Parliamentary inquiry....

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Financial planning

Choice has made clear it is lobbying the independents to back opt-in as the FOFA bills hit the Parliament....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial planners should have to clearly disclose the remuneration models of their research providers to clients, according to research house van Eyk's submission on dra...

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

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

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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ASIC has permanently banned a former Perth adviser after he made “materially misleading” statements to induce investors. ...

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