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Policy & Regulation
Financial planning firms should brace for an influx of legacy complaints in the wake of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission clearing the final regulatory...
People & Products
Stanford Brown has hired a senior business development manager as demand for managed accounts grows. ...
Financial planning
The increasing focus on technical skills from advisers means financial planning firms are forgetting about the soft skills a relationship manager role can bring....
Financial planning
New research suggests SMSF advice is a prime area for consolidation....
Financial planning
ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, says the regulator will be taking a clsoe look at professional indemnity insurance in coming months....
Editorial
With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...
Editorial
While ASIC is right to pursue more timely breach reporting by financial planning firms it should acknowledge that the vast majority more than live up to their obligations...
Financial planning
Financial planning practices on the market are being heavily overpriced because their sellers have failed to adopt a profit-based skew, a broker believes. ...
Financial planning
Financial planning firms and dealer groups would be levied by ASIC according to the number of authorised and employee representatives they have on their books....
Financial planning
The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...
Policy & Regulation
Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby has explained the high cost for planners in complying with an unamended FOFA regime....
Financial planning
ASIC will seek to ban management figures in financial planning firms that are involved in advice failures....
Financial planning
Money Management has named Tupicoffs’ James Kenny its 2013 Financial Planner of the Year. ...
Financial planning
FOS company secretary Nicolas Crowhurst defends its performance on planners, but acknowledges resolving issues without going to his organisation represents a good outcome...
Financial planning
Lawyers target planners as ASIC says PI is a risk management tool rather than a consumer protection mechanism....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...