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FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

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Financial planning

New research suggests few superannuation fund members have any real idea of the life insurance they hold inside super....

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Financial planning

Strong interest from Money Management readers sees plans for reignition of crowd-sourced pro-adviser campaign....

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Financial planning

A number of advisers have launched a crowd-funding effort to counter the negative publicity which has impacted the planning profession....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to start thinking about flat fee for service arrangements becoming the new normal....

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Financial planning

AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....

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IFM Investors has acquired a 24.99 per cent stake in a Mexican infrastructure group for US$600 million, and will invest in a Mexican toll road....

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Financial planning

The AFA has received an influx of enrolments for its recently-rebuilt education course, which it says shows an acceptance from advisers that standards have been raised. ...

Accounting

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

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Financial planning

Lonsec Stockbroking has signalled a push into the adviser market, partnering with GBST to offer financial advisers a cloud-based practice management tool to manage whole-...

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Superannuation

Retirees in their 90s might spend less on average compared to younger retirees but their medical and aged care expenses increase significantly, the ASFA retirement standa...

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Accounting

Financial advisers should require more than one semester unit in tax law if they want to be licensed to provide tax advice, the Institute of Public Accountants believes....

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Financial planning

The directors and trustees of investment companies carry far less regulatory onus than financial planners, according to Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

The AFA says advisers are too often being blamed for product failures and the misdeeds of others....

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Superannuation

Calls by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for financial advisers to undertake specialist self-managed super fund training if they advise in this area has received a tick...

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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 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

3 weeks 2 days ago

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

4 weeks ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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