FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

A senior Liberal backbencher and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Finance and Administration, Senator John Watson has praised the approach to superannuation by ...

Financial planning

Don’t jettison the basics when you prepare Statements of Advice, writes Lisa Chambers....

Financial planning

Trends in the risk market are set to mirror recent developments in the platform market through the introduction of a wider range of simpler products over coming years to ...

Financial planning

A new report by the banking sector’s chief complaints body has found the number of disputes involving bank-based financial planners remains relatively low, despite a stea...

Financial planning

Sealcorp-owned financial planning group Securitor has expanded its strategic partnership with practice management specialist firm Strategic Consulting and Training....

Financial planning

Financial planners are being prevented from improving the quality of advice they provide and may have to drop some of their smaller clients because of an overwhelming com...

Financial planning

A Sydney-based adviser who has built-up the funds under advice in his one-man business to $120 million over 24 years, has been acknowledged as the industry's best risk sp...

Financial planning

A Sydney-based adviser who has built up the funds under advice in his one-man business to $120 million over 24 years has been acknowledged as the industry’s best risk spe...

Financial planning

Proving that advice is given in the best interests of clients is more critical than ever if financial planners want to avoid a day in court, writes Paul Resnik....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has hinted at a possible collective merger with other industry associations at its annual conference in Launceston, while also annou...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been sentenced to five years and three months jail after pleading guilty in the Victorian County Court to five counts of fraud relating ...

Financial planning

Product pushing is a bummer. Disclosure is all good. Financial Services Reform (FSR) is a positive. Becoming a certified financial planner is a must. Fee-for-service is c...

Financial planning

The AXA group has set itself an ambitious target to generate $1 billion worth of inflows into its new Generations master trust platform within 12 months....

Financial planning

How do you charge fees to your clients – upfront or ongoing? The value of your practice could double depending on how you charge for your advice, writes John Ellison....

Financial planning

IOOF will pay former AM Corporation management “the high end of the $12.6 million scale” of a funds under management retention deal struck when AM Corp was acquired by th...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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