FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Baby boomers will be the last generation focused on financial advice with planners needing to convince people to take up advice while also introducing new blood into thei...

Superannuation

Compare the pair. It is likely these three words are some of the best known, and most irritating, among financial planners and advisers and have grated with them for the ...

Financial planning

Planners who cannot explain to clients their justification for recommending particular platforms may find themselves in breach of ASIC guidance....

Editorial

The immediate past chairman of the Financial Planning Association, Matthew Rowe, sees considerable significance in the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee which...

Financial planning

Consumers would be better served if financial planners and risk advisers were required to hold separate licences, Synchron director, Don Trapnell, believes....

Financial planning

Client relationships are the only real value financial advisers can bring to the table as automation increasingly replaces the process work, Wayne Leggett said....

Financial planning

Research undertaken by ASIC points to institutionally-aligned planners having the most "passive" clients. ...

Financial planning

Planners should lift their knowledge about compliance and risk management issues as this area is often overlooked by research houses and is not actively overseen by regul...

Financial planning

All forms of agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) should be shut down and all government support for the schemes removed to avoid further losses from the public ...

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-...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

Financial planners looking for new jobs are frequently receiving multiple offers, as banks vie for talent in a changing regulatory space, a survey has revealed. ...

Financial planning

Planners are actively investing client funds in growth assets and making greater use of passive strategies but are calling on more information from fund managers....

Financial planning

The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....

Financial planning

The AIST has called on the Government to draw a distinction between bank aligned and independent financial planners....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 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. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 2 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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