FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Former AFS adviser Gabriel Nakhl has been permanently banned from providing financial advice after entering into an enforceable undertaking....

Financial planning

Lawyer advises licensees to get ready to change their dispute resolution systems, with ASIC now requiring them to act quicker....

Financial planning

Investec Australia rolls out lending offering to independent financial advisers....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank is calling for the introduction of a financial planner passport scheme, similar to the one operating in the United States. ...

Financial planning

Fiducian Portfolio Services Limited has developed a new software solution intended to allow planners to compile fee disclosure statements. ...

Financial planning

Instreet has launched a structured gold fund claiming it will generate an annual 7 per cent indicative income return while avoiding any possible downside risk. ...

Financial planning

Henderson Global Investors has acquired 100 per cent of H3 Global Advisors’ equity....

Financial planning

New report shows financial planners are allocating more new client investments to international assets than at any time since the global financial crisis. ...

Life/Risk

Asteron Life has launched a new remuneration structure for advisers, which will see them receive 10 per cent extra commission in year one....

Superannuation

Two bodies representing industry super funds have called for improvement in the quality of advice provided to clients, questioning some of the drivers behind the growth o...

Financial planning

Equity Trustees lifts offer for Trust ahead of end of month meeting....

Financial planning

South Australian financial services firm Hood Sweeney has merged with boutique accounting business Shearer + Elliss, cementing its place as one of the biggest accounting ...

Financial planning

Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....

Financial planning

Bank-owned planning groups to develop internal channels as poaching season comes to an end....

Life/Risk

Around half of Australian adults are more likely to use the internet rather than visit a financial adviser or broker when researching or changing a financial product. ...

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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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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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