FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

The lack of common descriptors for responsible investments is serving to confuse investors and, in some cases, financial planners....

Financial planning

The true cost of a client review is $2,500, according to financial planning consulting firm Business Health. But that's a cost many advisers are yet to come to terms with...

Editorial

IFSA doesn't have the numbers to be able to claim it represents the financial services industry, so its recent name change is just a rebranding, writes Mike Taylor....

Financial planning

A number of the weaknesses in smaller financial planning firms are rooted in a lack of understanding of their target client base, according to practice management consult...

Financial planning

The past two years have been hard hitting for the financial services career market. Ashleigh McIntyre takes a look at what is driving its recovery....

Editorial

Milana Pokrajac examines how financial services salaries are regaining ground as firms look to strengthen teams and take advantage of improving market conditions....

Editorial

Employers may have started hiring again, but that doesn't mean the global financial crisis is over, writes Mike Taylor....

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition claims to have been inundated with expressions of concern from small business financial planners over the Government's Future of Financial Advice c...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning claims validation of its strategy on the back of growing planner numbers and higher productivity....

Financial planning

Plan B's Bryan Taylor and Shadforth's Tony Fenning have been nominated for entrepreneurship awards....

Editorial

Financial planning is about more than selling investment products, says Ray Griffin. It is about establishing long-lasting client relationships....

Editorial

Many financial planners today face having to adopt a fee-for-service model. Much more is being written on the need for this than on how to implement it in practice. Rober...

Editorial

With trailing commissions soon to be a thing of the past, owners of financial planning practices need to ask themselves how much their businesses are worth....

Financial planning

Money Management today introduces a new section to the daily e-newsletter – the posing of a question around current events and the opportunity for readers to give their v...

Editorial

The failures of various agribusiness managed investment schemes have created problems for the planning industry....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 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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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...

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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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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