FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

There is an unfair bias in the reform agenda against advisers, and more attention should be paid to researchers and product providers, according to the Financial Planning...

Financial planning

The FPA calls for industry support to give its DollarSmart program more impetus....

Editorial

To be recognised as true professionals, financial planners need the equivalent of a degree qualification. The FPA's Certified Financial Planner designation is not enough,...

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Financial planning

FPA Confidential has resulted in 12 formal investigations since it was launched in February....

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Financial planning

The lacklustre recovery from the global financial crisis can be seen in the growth or decline in planner numbers and FUA, writes Benjamin Levy....

Financial planning

Financial planning industry bodies must be careful taking sides during the election campaign - but at the same time they must continue stating their positions, writes Mik...

Financial planning

Diversifying an advice practice through acquisitions can become an expensive exercise when advisers don't have the expertise to retain the clients they paid for, argues A...

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Financial planning

Praemium forecasts finally moving into a cash flow positive position at the end of the next financial year....

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Editorial

The Cooper Review doesn't say anything about superannuation that financial planners didn't know already, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

Mark Thomas argues that financial planners must convince their spooked clients that index management and term deposits are the wrong strategy....

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Financial planning

The make-up of the board of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) is not adequately representative of practising financial planners, according to recently resigned FPA...

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Financial planning

Sydney-based boutique financial planning firm Financial Spectrum has launched a financial planning practice start-up and training program aimed at developing advisers out...

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Financial planning

Contrary to the concerns of many in the financial planning industry, the vast majority of phone-based intra-fund advice services offered by industry funds are manned by f...

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Editorial

The electoral cycle has overtaken the Government's agenda to change the financial planning industry and, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate outcome will be dictated by ...

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Financial planning

Today is the last chance financial planners have to voice their opinion in the Money Management Rate the Raters survey....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

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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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