FINANCIAL PLANNING PRACTICES

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Planners hold back on selling up while demand continues for acquisition ...

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The desertion of key planning practices and consequent revenue pressures have forced AFS to enter voluntary administration....

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Seaview Consulting points to parallels between the recent history of the accounting industry and what can be expected in planning sector....

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Financial planning

Financial planning broker firm Radar Results has been placed in liquidation as a result of an internal restructure....

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Financial planning

Industry commentators claim low-cost dealer groups could be an accident waiting to happen....

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Financial planning

Industry executives are questioning the wisdom behind suggestions that financial planners should move their clients away from investment platforms....

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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

The average retention payment agreed to by parties in financial planning practice transactions has crept up to to 26 per cent over the last year, according to NAB head of...

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Financial planning

Eight-five per cent of financial planning practices do not formally ask their clients for feedback, according to Business Health director Terry Bell....

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Financial planning

With next week’s FOFA event having sold out, Money Management is now offering a webstream....

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Editorial

SFG Australia has reported a $2.9 million decrease in NPAT for the first half of the financial year, but pointed to the solid underlying result....

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Financial planning

Many financial advisers are talking the talk when it comes to estate planning, but will they walk the walk? Tim Stewart reports that estate planning needs to be more than...

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Editorial

While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....

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Financial planning

Every planner should be able to enunciate what they do and how they add value in a 15-minute spiel, says HLB Mann Judd business services partner Matthew Gardiner....

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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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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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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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