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Financial planning
ANZ posts steady half-year profit and signals a continuing focus on a vertically-integrated wealth management approach leveraging its banking customer base....
Financial planning
Westpac posts solid result with platforms performing well but with advice fees lagging....
People & Products
Adelaide-based SMSF firm Excelsuper appoints first franchise owner as part of expansion move....
Financial planning
Peter Daly's Beacon Group has further grown its footprint in the financial advice space with the announcement today of a merger with Risk and Investment Advisers Australi...
Tools & guides
Matthew Rowe writes that, broken down to its essence, the problems confronting the life/risk sector are about leadership, not professional advice....
Editorial
The Senate Economics References Committee focus on financial advice is proving to be more about stage craft than pursuing substantial change....
Life/Risk
Risk advisers and their licensees should not be reluctant to hold insurers to account via APLs....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers says its OK for licensees to take a self-directed approach ahead of the mandating of any standards out of the Trowbridge recommendat...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has warned against granting ASIC product intervention powers as a bridge too far....
People & Products
Countplus announces Pierre Kraft as CEO of new business - Advice389....
Financial planning
ASIC signals clamp down on multiple instances of planning firms charging for advice that was never provided....
People & Products
Labor’s Bernie Ripoll has declared he will not contest his Queensland seat at the next Federal Election....
Superannuation
ASIC has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee it has been ‘working’ with real estate agents found to be giving property-related SMSF advice....
People & Products
Money Management will host an event on 21 May which canvasses key asset allocation questions in the context of Federal Budget outcomes....
Superannuation
Even those accountants with a heavy focus on self-managed superannuation funds are exhibiting little urgency where the new limited licensing regime is concerned....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...