FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Editorial

The Government’s introduction of the legislation necessary to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ coincided with the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, r...

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Accounting

APESB scheduled to deal with amended APES 230 approach on Friday....

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Financial planning

Mortgage Choice Financial Planning is trialing a new charging model for its financial planning services, which will involve clients being presented with a pricing menu....

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Editorial

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

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Financial planning

Two bodies will soon regulate financial planners - a serious concern to the FPA....

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Editorial

It would seem that in the mind of the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, accountants need to shoulder none of the responsibility for investors being burned by...

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Financial planning

In what promises to be one of the most comprehensive debates around the shape of the financial planning industry in a Federal election year, Money Management has joined w...

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Accounting

This week’s APESB board meeting looms as a crucial moment in the APES 230 debate....

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Editorial

It is to be hoped that the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has noted the capacity of the financial planning industry to do good and to rally to the needs o...

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Financial planning

AFA canvasses concept that two-tiered code of conduct with ethics and providing good advice is more important than obviating opt-in....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its intention to leave intra-fund advice out of the FOFA adviser charging regime....

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Financial planning

As the Financial Planning Association (FPA) opens enrolments for its 2013 Certified Financial Planner (CFP) program, chief executive Mark Rantall says the year ahead look...

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry has welcomed ASIC's guidance on fee disclosure, though some argue it should have applied only to new clients....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that FOFA is already beginning to change the shape and texture of the financial planning industry – something likely to be reflected in a rash of annou...

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Superannuation

ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues that 2013 is the dawn of a new era for superannuation, and that the industry will cater to those who own it – the members....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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....

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

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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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