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....

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Life/Risk

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

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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....

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Financial planning

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

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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...

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Financial planning

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

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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...

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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....

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Financial planning

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

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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....

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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...

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Financial planning

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

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Financial planning

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

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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...

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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?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

2 weeks 5 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

3 weeks 4 days ago

ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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