FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Policy & Regulation

Financial planners are set to maintain their lobbying against the Government's FOFA proposals....

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Financial planning

Lower costs for consumers and efficient administration were the top two factors advisers would like their platform provider to improve....

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Editorial

While financial planners have warned that the FOFA changes will be significant, Mike Taylor reports that the Government does not see that as an impediment to achieving it...

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....

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Financial planning

Macquarie Private Wealth has launched a training and education program for its advisers, which the group says will provide support in client service and business developm...

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People & Products

Morningstar Australasia has appointed former Macquarie Adviser Services strategic business manager Nigel Crampton as its new head of sales....

Superannuation

A company linked to SuperRatings has claimed up to 50 per cent of people using a planner want new advice....

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Financial planning

Client satisfaction surveys are better for the advice industry than a sales philosophy....

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Financial planning

A conditional exemption has been granted for Australian advisers to be able to continue to service clients in New Zealand....

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Editorial

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

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Editorial

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government's decision to ban commissions on all life and risk products within superannuation will only serve to add another layer of complexity and confusion,...

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Financial planning

Two financial advisers have been banned for life following separate investigations by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Financial planning

Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten has told financial planners they haven't managed to convince him the introduction of a two-year opt-in requirement would "beat th...

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Superannuation

An increase in SMSF gearing enquiries has prompted Multiport to launch a new product....

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