FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

AIA Australia has launched a web-based, self-service portal aimed at simplifying insurance administrative needs for financial advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

Life insurer, AIA, is helping financial advisers produce fast and accurate client information for administering life policies....

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Financial planning

There is an increasing temptation for advisers to move into assets that are not widely understood as they look for yield, Mason Stevens believes....

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Financial planning

CFS has introduced online tools to enable instant set-up of client accounts and will launch various managed accounts solutions on its wrap....

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association has partnered with wealth management firm, Morgans Financial, to provide SMSF training to its authorised representatives. ...

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Financial planning

If advisers had a ‘professional year’ requirement instead of a tertiary degree, it could help solve the issue of professionalism and ethics....

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Financial planning

New research has revealed changing client attitudes towards wealth management, with advisers needing to become financial therapists rather than asset allocators....

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Financial planning

The Government is proposing to extend the amount of time existing advisers will need to reach degree-equivalent status and to pass the new exam requirement....

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Financial planning

Limited financial advisers should not need to complete a full financial planning bachelor degree, Mentor Education believes....

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Financial planning

Planners employed by superannuation funds are almost twice as likely to believe they should earn more than $300,000 a year than others in the industry....

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Financial planning

There is high demand for the features that annuities offer but retirees lacked understanding of annuities, suggesting a need for financial advisers to educate them using ...

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Financial planning

Robo-advice is continuing to make inroads but the demand for good face to face advice in Australia is still largely unmet....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers will need to up their information security game as sophistication and stealthy nature of information attacks have increased, according to Midwinter....

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Financial planning

Reforms to education for advisers should include pathways for existing advisers, and risk advisers with decades of experience should not have to re-train....

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Financial planning

The key financial services groups are unified in their view that existing planners will need more than a two-year transition to become degree qualified....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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