FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Residential aged care facilities need urgent Government funding as new data shows 41 per cent of providers reported a loss at December 2017, with a further 56 per cent ex...

Financial planning

Financial planners are increasingly specialising, with their focus often times being on clients who are of a similar generation to themselves, according to Investment Tre...

Financial planning

Mortgage brokers are being urged to prepare for financial planning-like changes as the industry undergoes various reviews of the system and remuneration models....

Financial planning

A key industry fund body is urging the retention of ‘general advice’ as the creation of a new category ‘conflicted general advice’....

Features

Amid confusion and outcry amongst financial advisers about the Financial Advisers Standards and Ethics Authority’s education proposals, it is worth remembering how reform...

Tools & guides

Using a less compliance-heavy investment approach, advice businesses can manage higher volumes and compete for clients with a superior service offering, writes Alex Zaika...

Financial planning

DST System’s Shaun McKenna says the future of the financial services industry will see automated services implemented straight to the core of every business. ...

Features

Mike Taylor writes that notwithstanding their vocal protestations over the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime financial planners have few friends in ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has cautioned the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to be mindful of the importance of retaining advisers in the plan...

Financial planning

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has again attributed the Government’s establishment of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority...

Financial planning

Adviser and client interest in managed accounts has soared, and there have already been clear commercial winners. Money Management wants to know who actually benefits mos...

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed which advisers with related degrees will need to undertake bridging courses....

Financial planning

New data has confirmed the degree to which the Government’s $1.6 million pension cap has choked flows into retirement income....

Financial planning

A plaintiff law firm has called for changes to whistle-blowing legislation claiming it was stymied by tactics utilised by IOOF....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Associated has cited the “massive losses” associated with agricultural and forestry managed investment schemes in urging the Government to amend le...

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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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