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Australian investor sentiment has hit one of its lowest points, according to the latest Wealth Insights Investor Sentiment Index....

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Policy & Regulation

The financial planning industry is remaining vigilant despite Government assurances on FOFA bills' debate timing....

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Policy & Regulation

As many as 35,000 people in the financial advice industry will lose their jobs if the proposed FOFA reforms go ahead without amendment, according to the Association of Fi...

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Editorial

Many definitions within life insurance have been subject to drastic changes as time rolled past. However, Col Fullagar notes income-protection cover definition is one of ...

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Policy & Regulation

ASFA has pointed to "material differences" between what the Government has promised on FOFA and what is contained in its draft legislation....

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Financial planning

Financial planners have continued to steer clear of growth assets while more than doubling their portfolio allocation to term deposits in the past year....

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Financial planning

Specialist financial services technology provider Omnium announced this week it had made all its iPhone and Android applications for life insurance comparisons free....

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Financial planning

Provisio has forecast that the demand for online financial advice technologies is set to surge as the industry grapples with ways to lower the cost of delivering advice i...

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Financial planning

ASIC has been placed on notice to adopt a more independent stance in the wake of the regulator having presented a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) with preliminary dat...

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Financial planning

BetaShares has appointed University of New South Wales lecturer Dr Tony Rumble as head of portfolio construction....

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Financial planning

ASIC has been placed on notice to adopt a more independent stance in the wake of the regulator having presented a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) with preliminary dat...

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Financial planning

BetaShares has appointed University of New South Wales lecturer Dr Tony Rumble as head of portfolio construction....

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Financial planning

OnePath has launched an online application called OneView Life, which allows advisers to see client and policy information for their inforce books in real time....

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Financial planning

OnePath has launched an online application called OneView Life, which allows advisers to see client and policy information for their inforce books in real time....

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Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups will need to deliver greater value for money in their product and service offerings in order to stay competitive in a new legislative env...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 2 weeks ago

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

3 months 2 weeks ago

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

5 months 3 weeks ago

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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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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ASIC has permanently banned a former Perth adviser after he made “materially misleading” statements to induce investors. ...

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