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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority chief executive has reminded advisers that the FASEA exam extension is not a done deal until it passes the Parliament...

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Financial planning

Centrepoint chief executive, Angus Benbow, makes no bones about the group’s desire to grow the number of planners working under its license....

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Financial planning

Australian Paul Greenwood has taken out the 2019 PlanPlus Global Financial Planning Award for Europe/Australia....

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Financial planning

Easton Investments has announced 54 per cent growth in its statutory profit and 17 per cent growth in underlying profit due to an uplift in the number of advisers....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has clarified that financial planners will not only have to sign up to a code monitoring body but also face a new single disciplinary body....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has outlined its $1 billion strategy remake entailing fewer, more productive advisers and different approach to buyer of last resort....

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Financial planning

The firm will acquire Count Financial from Commbank for $2.5 million....

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Financial planning

The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....

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Financial planning

US media reports have questioned the conduct of the board which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation over its alleged failure to detail the criminal and regul...

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Features

As some advisers look to sell their firms in light of the Royal Commission, Tizzy Vigilante explores what factors potential buyers will be looking for in your business...

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Features

Paragem managing director, Nathan Jacobsen argues that while the march towards financial planning professionalism is welcome and necessary, it would be folly to overlook ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioners Board has revealed it is investigating the activities of 350 practitioners over suspected “high risk behaviour”....

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Financial planning

Netwealth has again emerged as the preferred platform for financial planners, but the latest Investment Trends research has also pointed to a consolidating platform marke...

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Superannuation

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

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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