FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Perennial appoints former researchers and BDMs to work with planners and research houses to develop investment portfolios....

Editorial

In the wake of recent corporate scandals and the global financial crisis, Ray Griffin asks whether the label ‘financial planner’ has become a burden to the industry....

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Editorial

It is reassuring that the chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Bernie Ripoll, has indicated that he really does understan...

Financial planning

In the wake of the global financial crisis the financial software industry remains in a state of upheaval, with innovation relentless, competition fierce and smaller prac...

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Financial planning

While financial planners may be skilled in advising clients to include property in their investment portfolio, they don't have the skills, ability or licence to assist cl...

Life/Risk

Will bring its products under one platform and introduce online application process....

Financial planning

The spotlight on fees and commissions may soon be transferred from financial planners to product providers as a result of a review of the joint Investment and Financial S...

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Financial planning

Some fund managers have expressed concerns that new requirements for product providers are going to make it harder for boutiques to get their products on to an investment...

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Financial planning

A preference for dealing with high-net-worth clients may see some financial planners miss out on securing the valuable next generation of clients, particularly if mortgag...

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Editorial

Will the policy tide turn against commissions? Michael Mathieson considers the future prospects for remuneration in the industry....

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Editorial

Regional financial planners face the same broad issues as those in metropolitan areas, but they also face a number of issues that city slickers do not....

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Financial planning

Despite many unique challenges facing regional planners, they have proved surprisingly resilient amid the economic downturn. Benjamin Levy reports....

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Editorial

Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...

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Editorial

PIS took a reputational hit when ASIC announced it had reached a settlement on matters relating to a class action tied to the collapse of Westpoint....

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Editorial

Managing risk is all about faith in the market and hanging in for the long term, writes Dale Gillham....

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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 ...

3 months 1 week ago

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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