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Employers and businesses must attain verification at the source for educational and employment background of advisers for the national register of advisers to be reliable...
Financial planning
The bad news regarding planners will be forgotten with falling numbers indicative of cultural change according to AFA national president Deborah Kent....
Financial planning
ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....
Financial planning
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand are urging the Government to simplify the arrangements around the tax deductibility of advice fees....
Financial planning
The ABA is backing the Federal Government’s recommendation of co-regulation as a solution to FOFA issues....
Financial planning
The Assistant Treasurer has confirmed he will consult all relevant stakeholders in the advice sector before putting into place any recommendations around adviser standard...
Financial planning
Life/risk advisers concerned at reports FSC submission urges 20 per cent flat commission and five-year responsibility period....
Financial planning
After this week’s leadership challenge the Federal Government will not waste political capital championing changes to FOFA according to the AFA....
Policy & Regulation
The AFA has been accredited with the TPB, allowing eligible members a new avenue to seek registration with the board. ...
Financial planning
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
People & Products
Financial planning firm, Anne Street Partners (ASP), has appointed former St George Financial Planning executive, Jason Dunn, to the role of head of strategy and advice w...
Financial planning
Financial advisers’ fee structures abet “closet indexing” by fund managers, creating a clear conflict of interest between planners’ earnings and their clients’ best inter...
Funds management
Retail investors significantly lack geographical and asset class diversification in portfolios, Goldman Sachs Asset Management found....
Financial planning
Client relationships are the only real value financial advisers can bring to the table as automation increasingly replaces the process work, Wayne Leggett said....
Financial planning
Accounting graduates may prove the “feeding ground” for the evolving financial advice space, according to the head of the AFA. ...
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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 ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...