FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Planners watch events in ICAC and hope they do not impact pace of FOFA changes....

Accounting

ICAA welcomes Government’s Cutting Red Tape website....

Financial planning

Centrepoint Alliance to assist planners gain their own licence and secure PI cover ...

Financial planning

National credit card debt has almost doubled in the last 10 years and is set to hit more than $52 billion by December 2014....

Financial planning

Money Management roundtable participants acknowledge that some hard lessons were learned on margin lending from the collapse of Storm Financial....

Financial planning

US specialist Bill Bachrach says Australian planners should be focused on their clients’ needs rather than their fee structures....

Financial planning

Financial advisers have to advocate further to avoid the growing involvement of lawyers in the insurance claims process....

Editorial

Based on recent media coverage, it would be easy to believe that the Abbott Government was quite recklessly setting about dismantling all the consumer protections contain...

Policy & Regulation

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Arthur Sinodinos, says ASIC will monitor FOFA changes to ensure they are meeting their objectives....

Editorial

MySuper and the default funds under modern awards regime have been areas of controversy for many months but, as Mike Taylor writes, the actions of the Fair Work Commissio...

Financial planning

BT rolls out tablets to its planning force to increase face-to-face time with clients....

Financial planning

Financial planners may need to complete at least 60 hours of CPD to stay registered as tax advisers, TPB proposes....

Financial planning

Federal ministers have been told FOS is being distracted by commercial borrowers such as property developers....

Financial planning

The head of the Commonwealth Bank has denied poor organisational culture is to blame for the events that led to a number of its planners being banned by the industry’s re...

Financial planning

ASIC warns on offshore lending scam which has impacted some Australian consumers....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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