FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

The corporate regulator states a co-regulatory model could work for financial advisers but says it is cost-effective and ethically practical to only work with one profess...

Financial planning

A Rockhampton-based financial adviser has been banned from working in the financial services industry for five years....

Policy & Regulation

Debate over the Government’s FOFA amendments has distracted Australians from focusing on the real purpose of financial advice, the AFA believes....

Financial planning

Consumers who bank via a tablet are more engaged with their bank and access more products according to research undertaken by ING Direct....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, confirms planners and SMSFs are on ASIC’s radar over the next 12 months....

Financial planning

Financial institutions should be prohibited from providing any form of adviser education to avoid perpetuating current business models which have promoted sales over advi...

Financial planning

Non-aligned advisers are using technology to build referral networks and outsourcing non-specialist work....

Editorial

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

Financial planning

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

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....

Financial planning

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

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....

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

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

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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