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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....

Financial planning

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

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....

Financial planning

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

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....

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 ...

Financial planning

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

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....

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....

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....

Superannuation

A panel of financial advisers pushed for more education and big hit policy responses that could have immediate effects for women who were behind on superannuation....

Financial planning

TAL has launched a risk office hub for its advisers, which allows them to access meeting rooms in five capital cities....

Funds management

Two former IPAC advisers have been recruited by Fitzpatricks Private Wealth, boosting its Victorian presence....

Financial planning

Two financial advisers have joined Fitzpatricks Private Wealth, citing their interest for self-employment and like-minded advisers....

Financial planning

Just under two-thirds of risk advisers consider themselves prepared for next year’s Life Insurance Framework changes....

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