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An industry consultant is predicting a steep increase in costs around SMSFs making small APRA funds an increasingly viable alternative....

Financial planning

Industry fund trustees and executives believe SMSFs are not being appropriately regulated by the ATO and should fall under the watch of APRA....

People & Products

Infocus Wealth Management’s ‘Succession Plan’ strategy has seen it acquire a fourth advice business....

Financial planning

Australians who seek financial advice are more confident that they will be able to support themselves through retirement without Government support, research reveals....

Financial planning

Eighteen months after it began its Wealth Management Project, ASIC confirms it is maintaining its surveillance of planners....

Financial planning

A purpose-built, client focused package could signal major turning point for the international and Australian industry, says CEO Nic Pollock. ...

Accounting

Accountants may well have been acting rationally in not rushing to the new licensing regime, according to Premium Wealth Management’s Paul Harding-Davis....

Financial planning

The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests most Australians have come to terms with retiring after age 65 and mostly relying on their super....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given the green light to businesses to provide customers with information in digital form....

Financial planning

Kiama-based financial technology firm Padua Financial Group (PFG) has launched a new online advice request system....

Tools & guides

There needs to be careful consideration of the significant overlap between the requirements of the new professional standard framework under the new Standards Body and th...

Features

Robo-advice and digital advice was hailed as the key to reaching the majority who don't seek advice. But with providers grappling with issues like generating revenue and ...

Financial planning

Defence Housing Australia which has promoted itself heavily in the financial adviser community is currently the subject of an AFP investigation....

Financial planning

Consumers’ desire for convenience means that typical nine to five hours are no longer suitable with clients seeking advice outside the traditional working day, YBR believ...

Editorial

Financial planners and their clients face an inevitable period of uncertainty at a time of continuing volatility if the Government moves for a double dissolution election...

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