FINANCIAL PLANNING

Funds management

This year belonged to Macquarie Investment Management at the Fund Manager of the Year Awards, as it notched up six nominations and five wins. Congratulations!...

Superannuation

The SMSF Association has partnered with wealth management firm, Morgans Financial, to provide SMSF training to its authorised representatives. ...

Superannuation

Super funds see robo-advice as a service they will provide free to members as a channel to comprehensive offerings that will attract a charge....

Financial planning

ANZ will launch its Grow Wrap after partnering with Macquarie in February, and will pilot a health and wellness pilot to relieve insurance costs for clients. ...

Features

Irrespective of the Federal Budget, leverage will remain an important strategy device for both planners and their clients, according to a Money Management roundtable....

Features

The market volatility which has marked the opening months of 2016 has served to create challenges for advisers, but volatility and leverage need not be mutually exclusive...

Features

Your typical margin lending client may not be who you expect him/her to be, especially when the pursuit of tax breaks is left out of the equation, according to a Money Ma...

Features

The global financial crisis and the collapse of Storm Financial placed a spotlight on the need for adviser education and the reality that leverage is not appropriate for ...

Financial planning

ASIC has suspended Marigold Falconer International’s AFSL after it failed to have a current indemnity insurance and lodge financial statements on time....

Financial planning

The FSC has declared it will research whether FOFA actually delivered on making advice more accessible and affordable....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an EU from an accounting and tax advisory firm for giving inappropriate advice to clients to set up SMSFs. ...

Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a NSW financial services licence holder from providing financial services after it found he was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and othe...

Features

Advisers could face hefty lawsuits if they are unable to keep pace with regulatory change and capability development. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can avoid legal t...

Editorial

The Federal Government has lost sight of the long-run Budget benefit of encouraging retirement incomes self-sufficiency by lowering the concessional super contribution ca...

Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has acknowledged that it has had little cause to scrutinise insurance claims handling and it will be highly reliant o...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 2 weeks ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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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 confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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