FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin, wants a Choice executive to withdraw a statement suggesting financial advisers can’t be trusted to act in c...

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Financial planning

The February sitting of the FASEA exam saw a pass rate of 82% and the June exam will not have a face-to-face sitting....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to hundreds of millions earned by stockbrokers, advisers and advice firms as a result of the stamping fee...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has created some time and space for advisers by delaying, for now, its work on life insurance advice and conflicted g...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fired a shot over the bows of real estate agents who have been providing ‘advice’ to hard-pressed tenants about a...

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Financial planning

The message from advisers to clients is ‘don’t crystallise your losses’, while the message from a Money Management survey of advisers to the Australian Securities and Inv...

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Financial planning

Advised Australians are seeing their financial advisers as a life coach in tough times, according to MLC Wealth....

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Financial planning

The Tax Practitioners Board has sought to lighten the load for tax advisers and others by lifting the continuing professional education 25% reading cap for six months. ...

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Financial planning

The Tax Practitioners Board needs to explicitly acknowledge the sufficiency of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority CPD regime, according to the FPA....

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Superannuation

Both AustralianSuper and UniSuper have been reported as having imposed a downward revaluation of their unlisted assets....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are struggling to cope with the increased burden of the economic crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Financial planning

The New Zealand Government has signalled it will slow the pace of regulatory change for the financial services industry to allow it to help consumers move beyond COVID-19...

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Financial planning

AMP has signalled its preparedness to help advisers and clients through the COVID-19 crisis including insurance premium suspensions in some circumstances. ...

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People & Products

IRESS, the financial services software provider, has acquired UK-based O&M Systems, which provides pension and investment data comparison tools to financial advisers. ...

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Financial planning

UK advisory business deVere Group has moved to a contactless advice service for those clients who are social distancing because of COVID-19. ...

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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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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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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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The corporate regulator has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based financial services provider, having held the licence since mid-2016....

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