FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Is there an advice/accounting convergence underway and is it something advisers want?...

Financial planning

Just under a third of Australians confess to poor financial management, according to research from Tribeca Financial....

Financial planning

The adoption of managed portfolios can enable advice practice redesign, with a case study of a small firm showing that it can both benefit clients and provide a springboa...

Financial planning

Australian Ethical has posted that its underlying profit after tax for the 12 months ending June 30, will be represent a 30 per cent increase year-on-year....

Financial planning

Adviser Ratings has launched a crowd funding campaign to help improve the institutional conduct and transparency in the wealth management industry....

Financial planning

AMP Limited has upped the ante on its managed accounts presence, announcing key initiatives based around its MyNorth platform....

Financial planning

Retirees should review their income-generating strategies in light of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s second rate cut as it will mean they receive less income from their ...

Financial planning

Technical expert, Rob Lavery believes the 1 July changes allowing catch-up contributions have opened the way for astute tax management strategies....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Tax Practitioners Board that it is simply adding to current adviser stress levels by proposing tough new rules around...

Financial planning

IOOF’s new-confirmed chief executive, Renato Mota has confirmed the inevitability of change to the company’s commercial models around advice resulting from the removal of...

Financial planning

Financial planners face the need to convince the Senate cross-bench of the virtue of allowing more time for them to sit the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authori...

Financial planning

As financial planning firms worry about whether their professional indemnity insurance will cover legacy complaints, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Financial planning

Recent media coverage of problems associated with products promoted by vertically-integrated financial services businesses have served to confirm the law is still falling...

Financial planning

With the cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia, investors are looking to cash or enhanced cash funds in order to achieve better returns while maintaining...

Financial planning

The Cancer Council runs a pro bono program supported by funding from the AMP Foundation, to help alleviate the burden caused by financial stress during a cancer diagnosis...

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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...

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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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