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Financial planning

AFA recommends limited adviser role for TPB

The Association of Financial Advisers has recommended a limited advisory role for the Tax Practitioners Board in the advice space while, at the same time, pointing to maj...

Financial planning

Mid-tier advice groups rise as adviser numbers fall

The overall number of planners employed by the top financial planning groups has dropped 10% year-on-year, according to Money Management’s survey....

Expert Analysis

Why advisers need to strengthen connections with their clients

MetLife’s Michael Mulholland on how firms ensure clients want to stay with their adviser and how they can demonstrate value in their work....

Financial planning

Are advisers able to satisfy client needs for aged care?

There is a strong demand for aged care advice, according to a recent Australia Securities and Investments survey tracking consumer demands, calling into question if advis...

Financial planning

Grandfathering – ASIC relied on sample-based data

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....

Financial planning

End TPB/FASEA duplication says FSC

There is an urgent need to end the regulatory overlap between the Tax Practitioners Board and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, according to the Finan...

Financial planning

Grandfathering end hurts advisers not product providers

Legislation has moved through Parliament to end adviser grandfathered remuneration with the Association of Financial Advisers arguing that there was no balanced consultat...

Financial planning

Don’t turn off grandfathered commissions early says AFA

Financial services product providers have been urged not to move ahead of the Government’s January, 2021, timeframe in turning off grandfathered commissions....

Financial planning

AFA warns ASIC on inadvertent adviser anti-hawking impacts

Financial advisers should not be inadvertently caught up in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s tough new life/risk anti-hawking approach just because ...

Financial planning

ASIC to review large number of advice files

Financial advisers are facing yet more scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as it drills down on a large number of advice files....

Financial planning

TAL offers advisers mental wellbeing course

Life insurer TAL is to launch a mental health course for financial advisers to help boost their mental wellbeing amid the stressful Royal Commission changes....

Financial planning

Institution size a consideration

Australians have a sense of security when they seek financial advice from larger institutions and advisers should consider this if looking to move to smaller licensees, w...

Financial planning

ASIC research confirms value of advisers

New research undertaken by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that consumers who use advisers actually value them, but that the industry r...

Features

Law and order… and ASIC

The financial services regulator responded to Royal Commission criticism with a ‘why not litigate?’ approach. Jassmyn Goh finds out what this means for advisers and how t...