FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Financial planning job numbers jumped 21 per cent in January 2011 compared to January 2010, while they were notably up from seasonal lows in December, according to eJobs ...

Editorial

The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...

Editorial

As the Government implements its financial services reforms throughout 2011 and beyond, it can either choose to do things the 'hard way'; or the ';easy way', writes Mike ...

Policy & Regulation

The key lobby groups making up the financial services industry are hoping to see the first draft of the legislation emanating from the Government’s Future of Financ...

Editorial

Ray Griffin looks at the recent changes made by the Financial Planning Association and considers the impact they will have on the financial planning community in Australi...

Editorial

The financial planning industry has ended 2010 amid just as much uncertainty as the beginning of the year, writes Mike Taylor....

Editorial

As the debate surrounding tertiary education for financial planners moves from whether it should be compulsory to what degree should count, Ashleigh McIntyre writes that ...

Financial planning

Richard Klipin takes a look at 2010 and the impact it has had on the financial planning industry....

Financial planning

Things are looking good for financial planners and paraplanners in terms of their job prospects for the first quarter of 2011 with demand for these positions expected to ...

Financial planning

The University of New England has signed an articulation agreement with RG 146 training provider, Mentor Education Group, allowing Mentor graduates to knock up to 42 per ...

Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has produced a new document reinforcing its approach on annual opt-ins and an expansion of intra-fund advice....

Financial planning

ANZIIF warns that lifting the bar on financial planning qualifications may be an overreaction to having set it too low....

Financial planning

Financial planners will be closely watching the discussion and debate surrounding the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....

Financial planning

A joint move by ASIC and APRA to suspend Trio Capital (formerly Astarra Capital) as trustee of four superannuation funds and a pooled super trust generated significant co...

Editorial

As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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 1 week 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 5 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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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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