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Financial planning

Planners are actively investing client funds in growth assets and making greater use of passive strategies but are calling on more information from fund managers....

Financial planning

The AFA says advisers are too often being blamed for product failures and the misdeeds of others....

Financial planning

The FSC has told a Parliamentary Committee that ASIC needs to get more proactive in pursuing enforcement when planning breaches occur....

Financial planning

The Findex Group has formally acquired financial planning and accounting firm Crowe Horwath after eyeing the business for months. ...

Financial planning

MDS Financial signals further acquisitions after completing its transaction with Sequoia Financial to gain a solid foothold in the SMSF sector....

Financial planning

The FPA’s 11th hour FPEC “gift” rewarded in Parliamentry Committee’s final report....

Life/Risk

Synchron’s Don Trapnell urges risk advisers to counter worst elements of Trowbridge interim report, including five-year responsibility period....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank’s financial advice remediation program has attracted more than 4500 cases from aggrieved customers in its first few months, an independent review ha...

Financial planning

The AIST has called on the Government to draw a distinction between bank aligned and independent financial planners....

Financial planning

ASIC moves to extend the class order relief currently underpinning general advice....

Editorial

The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....

Editorial

The retirement of Matthew Rowe after two terms as chairman of the FPA represents the closing of a chapter in the organisation’s continuing evolution. ...

Financial planning

Advisers are expected to exit institutions en masse in 2015, with the product-heavy vertically integrated model facing an “adapt or die” future under the new advice regim...

Financial planning

BTFG has gained some key insights from those using its adviser register and comments facility, Adviser View....

Financial planning

Former Charterbridge Davey chief executive, Venn Williams is heading up a new venture seeking equity in financial planning firms....

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