FINANCIAL PLANNING

People & Products

National Australia Bank Financial Planning has today announced two appointments within its leadership team to manage NSW, QLD and the ACT....

Funds management

Managed Accounts Holdings has moved to acquire Linear Financial Holdings in key transaction aimed at delivering scale and growth....

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned John Dimitropoulos from financial services in connection with property and SMSF spruiking....

Editorial

Was the life insurance industry ever really guilty of 'excessive' churn or was churn a means to a politically-motivated end? ...

Top 100

Money Management's TOP 100 Financial Planning Groups survey has found financial planner numbers have dropped against the backdrop of increased educational requirements an...

Editorial

University of Wollongong academics Shantha P Yahanpath and Shan P Yahanpath argue that there is a better way for financial planners to approach wealth management....

Tools & guides

Minh Ly looks at modelling strategies to help advisers help clients understand how likely a desired spending level can be sustained during retirement....

Life/Risk

A new whitepaper has outlined an integral role for life/risk advisers in an increasingly digital age with insurers placing them in the online mix....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank group executive, Wealth Management, Annabel Spring will exit the business in December....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has said it will veto the appointment of former banker, John O’Sullivan, if he is nominated as the new chairman of the Australian Securities and In...

Financial planning

A senior parliamentarian has quizzed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on whether insurers have simply converted the payment of shelf space fees to ‘tr...

Life/Risk

The ISWG’s draft Life Insurance in Superannuation Code of Practice requires any opt out or cessation arrangements to be straightforward and transparent. ...

Financial planning

The Victims of Financial Fraud has likened the recent bank money laundering investigations to the Trio Capital scheme, arguing admission of weaknesses in the law meant it...

Life/Risk

ASFA has found that while receiving an insurance payout is not a rare event under insurance costs the government more than $1 billion annually....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has outlined to a Parliamentary Committee what it thinks life/risk advisers actually earn via the statement of advice...

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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 1 week 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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