FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Fiducian financial services has continued to grow its planner footprint while positioning managing director, Indy Singh for the chairmanship....

Policy & Regulation

The ATO has signalled that SMSF property developments and concessional cap manipulation are on its regulatory radar....

Life/Risk

The insurance sector faces systemic difficulties dealing with mental health coverage, the Actuaries Institute has found....

Financial planning

A new report from KPMG has found three quarters of large and mid-cap companies do not acknowledge financial risks of climate change....

Life/Risk

Correspondence provided to Money Management has revealed why the Australian Securities and Investments Commission declined an FOI request to release documents relating to...

Financial planning

Advisers who are using managed accounts are saving over 14 hours a week and could potentially generate $45,000 p.a. in additional revenue....

Policy & Regulation

The government has announced the appointment of a new ASIC chair for a five-year period, effective from 1 February next year....

Financial planning

The Tax Practitioners Board has been urged to recognise and better understand the central commercial relationship which exists between licensees and ARs before setting ne...

People & Products

The ABA would nominate ANZ chief executive, Shayne Elliott as next chairperson succeeding NAB’s Andrew Thorburn. ...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has thrown its support behind the move to give ASIC regulatory powers to ban the distribution of products it believes would cause harm....

Financial planning

The financial services industry as a whole needs to work together to stamp out rogue financial advisers from the industry rather than working in isolation, Alexis George ...

Financial planning

Advisers who do not ask about a client’s mental and physical health are doing them a disservice, Leading Advice believes....

Financial planning

Madison Financial Group CEO, Annick Donat has warned the AFA’s advice competency framework research should not be exploited for commercial gains....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has continued its public image rehabilitation strategy by claiming to have removed the sales culture from the incentive program offered to tellers a...

Financial planning

The AFA’s whitepaper may not be the answer to the new educational framework but the association has made it clear it wants to sit at the FASEA table and be consulted....

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