FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Superannuation

The accountant-planner relationship is evolving to better serve self-managed super fund trustees, according to Investment Trends....

Financial planning

AMP Limited has handed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission a victory by admitting wrongdoing and failing to ensure AMP financial planners acted in the be...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has passed a key milestone, opening up adviser exam registration and sitting dates along with a curriculum guide and ...

Policy & Regulation

Financial advisers were notable by their absence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s latest Enforcement Update....

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has signalled it has little or no sympathy for advisers who have purchased books of trailing commissions and believes such people have failed to do...

Financial planning

The adoption of exchange traded funds among financial planners has continued to grow, with more than half of Australian planners now recommending index funds, according t...

Financial planning

More research has emerged suggesting the Royal Commission final report may have unduly targeted intermediaries rather than major banks and product providers....

Financial planning

Many of the problems identified by the Royal Commission stemmed from a revenue at all costs approach which sublimated the needs of the client, according to an assessment ...

Financial planning

Only 16.8 per cent of wealth management product holders obtained their fund from a professional adviser, according to new results from Roy Morgan. ...

Policy & Regulation

The new industry funding model for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission will see financial planning licensees and credit providers carrying some of the gr...

Financial planning

The Finance Sector Union has called for the current move to professionalisation to be extended beyond just planners, but has warned that there are issues with an industry...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that the final exam introduced as part of its education reforms would be one exam for all advisers rega...

Financial planning

Planners should expect FASEA’s final standards by Christmas, with the Authority’s chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, today saying that his intention was to have them fin...

Financial planning

At the same time as confirming Westpac has lost around half its authorised representatives since 2015 the bank’s chief executive has also confirmed a proposed industry so...

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