FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

APRA seeks to create distance from blame around Trio Capital while pointing to deficiencies of SMSF trustees and financial planners....

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Financial planning

In the "noise" around how many Count practices have transitioned over to BT groups and under what arrangements, the reasons practices switch licensees seem to have been l...

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Superannuation

APRA admits it does not collect data on how long superannuation funds take to administer rollovers and has no view on what might represent best practice....

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Financial planning

With appropriate transition arrangements in place, the purchase of a financial planning practice should see 98 per cent of the client base retained, says Kenyon Partners ...

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Superannuation

The same timing problems which impacted FOFA are now impacting MySuper....

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Superannuation

Money Management is conducting its SMSF Essentials 2012 education workshop in Melbourne this Wednesday....

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Financial planning

Younger financial planners are snapping up C & D client lists from established practices and treating them as a referral source, according to NAB Financial Planner Bankin...

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Financial planning

AIA Australia launches product changes which help financial planners deliver insurance within superannuation....

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Editorial

Until the final wording of the Future of Financial Advice legislation is released, it is impossible to assess what the opt-in agreements have actually achieved for financ...

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Superannuation

AMP looks to move self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) beyond "cottage industry" status....

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Financial planning

Adherence to the FPA's code of conduct should not be difficult and would prevent any financial adviser being penalised by FOS, the Ombudsman has confirmed....

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Financial planning

Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten canvasses SMSF compensation levy while fingering some financial advisers on Trio Capital collapse....

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Financial planning

Financial planners can use commodity exchange-traded funds as a hedge against client concerns about the cost of living, says Neville Ward Advice partner/director Andrew R...

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Financial planning

Contributing to superannuation is looking less attractive for high income earners following the tax changes in this year's Federal Budget, according to Tupicoffs adviser ...

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Financial planning

Key opposition parliamentarians Senators Mathias Cormann and Arthur Sinodinos to give the counter view on the Budget at AFA forum....

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

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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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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