FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Editorial

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

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Financial planning

Homesafe Solutions believes market conditions have generated an environment conducive to equity release products....

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Life/Risk

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

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Accounting

A new ICAA white paper argues the case for a new Government to recognise the ability of accountants to rebuild community trust in the financial services industry....

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Editorial

With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...

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Financial planning

Insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection product suite on the Asgard superannuation platform....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should not ignore the value of having soft and sales skills when it comes to servicing their clients, writes Tim Browne. ...

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Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

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Financial planning

AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...

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Financial planning

More than half of advisers in the industry have been approached by one or more dealer group asking them to switch, according to a CoreData survey....

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Superannuation

The Industry Super Network has launched an advertising campaign focused on the payment of commissions with respect to financial advice around superannuation....

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Superannuation

On the back of a weakening Australian dollar, investors have shown particular interest in currency ETFs, according to Alex Vyonkur, managing director of BetaShares....

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Financial planning

After much debate, FOFA is set to hit the beach in a matter of days on 1 July. D-Day is imminent – and a survival strategy for planners is now absolutely imperative, writ...

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Financial planning

Financial solutions provider Rubik Financial has launched a COIN Software-integrated iPad app to provide financial advisers with real-time access to client data....

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Life/Risk

Choosi’s parent company Hollard Financial Services has agreed to change the way it promotes funeral insurance under the Real Insurance brand, as a result of concerns rais...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 1 week ago

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

6 months 1 week ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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The corporate regulator has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based financial services provider, having held the licence since mid-2016....

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