FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Australian financial planners use less sophisticated software than US and UK counterparts and have focused on FOFA compliance instead of business efficiency....

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Financial planning

Proposals to introduce a ‘restricted advice’ label would help to bring transparency to the financial advice consumers Infocus managing director Rod Bristow believes....

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Financial planning

The Boutique Planners argue that resolving advice disputes should be the province of planner professional associations....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has used its second FSI submission to back a US-style approach to the implementation of a natioanl register of financial planners....

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Financial planning

ASIC has recommended that institutionally-aligned advisers be labelled as “restricted advice’ businesses and provide statements about limited product advice....

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Financial planning

Financial services business broker claims things have changed and some baby boomer planners should consider their exit strategy....

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Financial planning

AMP has unilaterally moved to impose higher education standards within its licensee networks and to implement an advice review panel....

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Editorial

Challenger post strong result on back of fifth straight year of retail annuities growth....

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Financial planning

ASIC plans to have more ‘cops on the beat’ as it targets the financial advice sector....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....

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Financial planning

ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...

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Editorial

The underlying factors that influence investment decisions may have more to do with DNA and culture than previously thought, Grace Yulu writes. ...

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Financial planning

A register of financial advisers with their qualifications and experience will not be enough to determine whether they are trustworthy financial planners or not, accordin...

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People & Products

Anne Fuchs has moved to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial Officer within the AFA....

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Financial planning

Brisbane-based planning chief executive argues institutionally-aligned advisers need to question their roles....

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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 ...

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

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

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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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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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