FINANCIAL PLANNING

Editorial

The unprecedented nature of the closure of the Dover Financial Services business and resultant limbo status of its clients and advisers must act as a catalyst for change ...

Financial planning

Westpac has responded to civil charges brought against it by the regulator for poor financial advice by saying that it had already identified and responded to the alleged...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was left with little discretion around the future of Dover Financial Services with the licensee exercising its right ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a warning to licensees on the need to undertake appropriate due diligence when appointing advisers “who ha...

Financial planning

With inheritance planning a growing problem for the ageing entrepreneurial community in China, it could prove a significant business opportunity for wealth managers, acco...

Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation fund advice offers a huge opportunity for financial planners, with half of all SMSFs reporting unmet advice needs, according to Investment Tre...

Features

The Federal Government has decided a degree-level equivalency will be required for new advisers from January 2019 under the FASEA regime. Nick Grove asks whether this wil...

Expert Analysis

Banning grandfathered commissions without first having a definitive policy objective speaks to ideological and simplistic motivations, writes Phil Anderson....

Features

Money Management conducted a roundtable in which key participants discussed the evolving impact the rise of managed accounts has had on planning and platforms....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a former AMP financial adviser for five years, after finding that he gave advice which was “well below com...

Financial planning

The buyer’s market for financial planning practices and premium valuations of 3.2 to 3.5 times may be coming to an end with a new analysis suggesting ageing, trail-relian...

Financial planning

New research from Roy Morgan shows that almost half the people born before 1946 had purchased wealth management products from a professional adviser, well above the level...

Financial planning

It would be foolhardy for non-bank advice firms to think that they are not the next focus of the regulator, according to the Fold Legal....

Financial planning

The Royal Commission has convinced one in four Australians to either change banks or consider doing so, according to an Essential Media poll....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed the finger at financial services companies seeking to cling to old regulatory regimes, arguing that legal...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 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. ...

4 weeks ago

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...

1 week 3 days ago

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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