FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Trevor William Martin has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment to be served through an intensive corrections order for dishonestly obtaining $208,000 of client f...

Financial planning

Financial advisers are struggling to cope with the increased burden of the economic crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic....

Financial planning

IMB Bank has exited advice ownership with its planning assets being sold to Bridges Financial Services....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants the Government to commission the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to monitor the escalating costs of practicing a...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants managers of advice licensees subjected to the same reference-checking protocols as advisers in circumstances where it says it has...

Financial planning

The FASEA’s Professional Year requirement has become a roadblock in the new environment for young advisers attempting to enter the industry, according to Wealth Today....

Expert Analysis

The financial planning profession is on the cusp of a major growth trajectory as planners and professional associations unite to secure its future, writes Dante De Gori....

People & Products

Morningstar is to acquire Canadian financial planning and risk-profiling software firm PlanPlus Global....

Financial planning

The benefits of comprehensive financial advice significantly outweigh those delivered by intra-fund advice and this should be recognised within the Retirement Income Syst...

Financial planning

How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is canvassing what the industry might look like over the next half-decade including whether a new licensing regime may evolve....

Life/Risk

Fewer financial planners consider client-related challenges to be significant when it comes to growing insurance advice, according to a report....

Financial planning

Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...

Financial planning

Westpac’s net profit dropped 16% during FY16 thanks to customer remediation and a reduction in wealth and insurance income....

Financial planning

Findex has announced 57 new partner appointments, of whom almost a quarter will be based out in regional areas....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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