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Financial planning

The need to build a growing and sustainable business has emerged as a key concern for financial planners who attended the Financial Planning Association’s professionals c...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry f...

Superannuation

IFM states new name is better representation of its work and customers. ...

Life/Risk

Risk commission concerns have blocked discussions about client trust and appropriate selling of risk insurance...

Financial planning

FPA chief executive calls on CFP members to actively promote designation. ...

Financial planning

Twenty per cent lower practice valuations are the way of the future, says Seaview Consulting director Bob Neill....

Financial planning

Financial planners in regional Australia share many of the challenges faced by those in metropolitan areas, writes Jason Spits, but technology has helped overcome the tyr...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has entered into an agreement with industry super fund Cbus to pilot a referral service. ...

Financial planning

ISA and AIST call for simpler process around lifting advice qualification standards....

Financial planning

FPA recommends creation of stakeholder body to drive education standards....

Superannuation

Only two in five Australians currently receive qualified financial advice, according to a recent survey conducted by the Financial Planning Association....

Editorial

Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...

Financial planning

The FPA’s Ask an Expert initiative received more than 90 requests this year, which points to a stronger-than-ever need for financial advice, the association says....

Financial planning

ASIC’s senior executive leader Ged Fitzpatrick has defended the role of fast-tracked pre-election regulatory change in the wake of RG148....

Financial planning

The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....

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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 RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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

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