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The FPA has launched a campaign called ‘Bulletproof Financial Planning’ to promote best practice in the industry and support members through the FOFA transition....

People & Products

Founder and former chief executive of Finovia Group, Geoff Pritchard, has joined Elixir Consulting as a business coach to service the company's Melbourne and Perth market...

Financial planning

Employers need to ensure they are continually engaging and rewarding staff as part of their retention strategy as the year comes to an end....

Financial planning

It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...

Financial planning

Financial planning businesses should conduct a health check of how they are tracking as they approach the end of the calendar year, according to Macquarie Practice Consul...

Funds management

Fund managers have been accused of neglecting the needs of retail clients and catering to the institutional market....

Financial planning

Macquarie Practice Consulting has recommended financial planning businesses re-examine their overall business health, including revising whether their referral partners a...

Financial planning

Outdated manual compliance operations coupled with an increasing workload and loss of experienced practitioners threatens to create a massive compliance risk for dealer g...

Financial planning

Wealth Today attributes a combined mortgage broking and financial advice service offering (based around the upskilling of brokers) for its rapid recent growth....

Financial planning

Dealer groups aligned with big institutions should be honest with consumers and describe themselves as 'agents' of their parent company, says Paragem managing director Ia...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups are restructuring salary models to make sure their planners are rewarded after the ban on commissions officially comes in on 1 July 2013....

Top 100

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the sale of client books entailing trailing commissions will look utterly incongruous in a post-FOFA world unless financial planners are actively ...

Financial planning

A Radar Results analysis of 500 financial planning businesses has found larger practices earn around three times as much in annual fees per client as smaller practices....

Policy & Regulation

The Opposition is demanding the Government reveal the costs and benefits of its FOFA legislation....

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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 ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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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