FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Financial services firm, Centrepoint Alliance, has launched a client interface developed for advisers....

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Financial planning

Financial planners were only exploring aged care financial advice at a time of crisis for clients and their relatives, but this area could become mainstream in the future...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government announced a new independent standards body for financial advisers, as a part of its professional standard reforms....

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Top 100

For the first time Money Management asked the dealer groups in a survey to share their views on the educational requirements for new advisers as well as their expectation...

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Financial planning

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox, has stressed the need for advisers to experiment and share results with their peers to adapt to change and thrive....

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Policy & Regulation

Advisers must collectively embrace legislative and regulatory change to cope with an increasingly complex advice world that is no longer about selling insurance....

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Financial planning

There is a need for more financial advisers to develop their own business, Centrepoint Alliance believes....

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Financial planning

The Australian Bankers' Association has imposed a planner hiring protocol for use by members to screen out bad planners....

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Financial planning

General advice warnings must be easily accessible, must not be hidden, and should be placed near the advice itself in documents in order for advisers to be compliant, a l...

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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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