FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICES

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. ...

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Financial planning

With the surge of online technologies reducing face-to-face time at a rapid pace, financial planners must make sure the push towards efficiency doesn’t come at the cost o...

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Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac examines the advantages and disadvantages of vertically integrated advice compared to self-licensing and non-aligned advice....

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Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac explores the pluses and minuses of vertically integrated dealer groups and the concept of a so-called ‘benign institution’....

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Financial planning

The big institutions are dropping their product push mentality to attract more advisers. ...

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Financial planning

Infocus Wealth Management buys back MLC’s share of the business....

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Financial planning

Administration and compliance is costing advisers more than $15,000 a year in lost revenue, according to a CoreData report....

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Financial planning

Financial planning industry veteran Gwen Fletcher passes away aged 94....

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Financial planning

Planners who have prepared for the full FDS regime should continue to use the work to build their value proposition and client relationships...

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Policy & Regulation

Large number of planning practices ready to act on grandfathering amendments after preparing in advance....

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Financial planning

Financial planning practices have experienced a healthy increase in profit and revenue, while client numbers decrease, survey shows....

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Financial planning

Is scaled advice a game only the big guys can play? Malavika Santhebennur explores some of the things that might be stopping smaller financial planning practices from pro...

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Financial planning

Specialist broker claims merged planning/accounting firms represent better value....

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Editorial

A close reading of the submissions so far lodged with the Senate Committee investigating the operations of ASIC suggests the newly-elected Abbott Government will be right...

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Financial planning

BT Select points to new growth objective backed by increased resourcing of member practices....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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

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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. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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