FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....

Life/Risk

A global insurance report points to Australia's regulatory compulsion around issues such as professional indemnity as a driver for growth....

Editorial

The trouble with APES 230 is that it goes much further than FOFA, with a prohibition on commissions and the elimination of asset-based fee arrangements....

Financial planning

Madison Financial Group is rolling out a compliance framework that uses estate planning as a context for the best interests duty....

Editorial

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

Financial planning

Participants of a Money Management roundtable agree there are too many part-time financial planners living off large books of trailing commissions....

Financial planning

For those unable to commit to the full-time 10-week program, AMP has launched a part-time paid financial planning training course to provide individuals with a flexible p...

Editorial

The approach ASIC has signaled it will adopt to scaled advice and the best interests duty is a welcome development for financial planning industry....

Financial planning

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

Financial planning

Promoting the value of advice and improving consumer confidence are some of the main goals of this year's Financial Planning Week, according to FPA chief Mark Rantall....

Financial planning

Australia's three professional accounting bodies are in danger of losing members heavily engaged in the financial planning industry over new standards being proposed by t...

Financial planning

Calls for independent inquiry into Australian financial system to redress undue influence of major banks....

Financial planning

ASIC said it is currently unable to provide clarity on some key licensee concerns....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the reputational damage often suffered by the financial planning industry might be substantially reduced if regulators and the media were a little...

Editorial

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....

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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...

7 months ago

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. ...

3 weeks 6 days ago

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...

1 week 3 days ago

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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