FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

ASIC bans Victorian-based financial adviser Allan Burt Vissenjoux from providing financial services....

Life/Risk

New MetLife/FSC research reveals that tax incentives similar to those applied to health insurance could help bridge Australia’s under-insurance gap....

Superannuation

SPAA membership will be boosted after partnering with Count Financial to provide subsidised services to advisers....

Policy & Regulation

The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....

Financial planning

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

Policy & Regulation

Minister puts brakes on both legislative and regulatory amendments to FOFA but action is well received. ...

Policy & Regulation

Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann pauses FOFA process for consultations...

Financial planning

Planners and accountants unlikely to take each other’s work due to workloads involved. ...

Financial planning

If it is true that only two out of 10 people seek financial advice, perhaps planners need to look to successful entrepreneurs for tips on how to raise their stake, says M...

Financial planning

Dealer group head warns that tough regulations and a range of other factors are making planning an unattractive business....

Accounting

Count launches accountants licensing offer and commits to meeting APES 230....

Financial planning

New Wealth Insights research confirms planners remain generally upbeat....

Accounting

Accountants who wish to avoid product distribution pressure should not join an institutionally aligned licence if they wish to provide advice....

Policy & Regulation

The FSC has obtained legal advice from a Senior Counsel confirming the Government’s FOFA changes will not undermine client best interest or consumer protections....

Policy & Regulation

As FOFA development draws to a close, software companies shift focus to scaled advice and customer engagement, research shows....

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4 months 3 weeks 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 ago

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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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...

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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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