FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Digital and robo-advice has the potential to reduce costs on simple advice to around one-hundredth of their current levels, according to a cloud based platform provider....

Financial planning

ASIC began proceedings in the Victorian Federal Court against failed land banking company Midland HWY, for appointing Hall Chadwick as administrators without notifying in...

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AMP and the big four control even less of the wider market than first revealed by Money Management and far short of the 80 per cent ownership figure often spoken about in...

Top 100

Service providers are an essential part of the financial planning sector and, as Jason Spits writes, while advisers may recommended diversification in a portfolio they ap...

Top 100

Moves to assess the landscape of financial planning should be lauded but, as Jason Spits writes, there needs to be more clarity as to who should populate that landscape....

Financial planning

Building consumer trust - not digital disruption - is the biggest challenge facing the wealth management industry, delegates at Money Management’s Platforms and Wraps con...

Financial planning

A Queensland couple are facing civil action over allegations that they have been providing financial services without and AFSL....

Life/Risk

New research confirms Trowbridge impact with life/risk advisers moving to make comprehensive advice a greater part of their businesses....

Financial planning

Money Management’s Platforms and Wraps Conference told robo advice can help restore trust in financial planning industry....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has ordered people under investigation to pay its investigation costs and expenses if they are convicted of the offence, or face a penalty....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has stepped back from imposing added disclosure requirements around advice on SMSF set-ups....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has issued new guidance giving financial services firms greater scope to use digital disclosure....

Financial planning

Financial services employers are increasing employee remuneration as a retention strategy for their most valued, according to a report....

Financial planning

Risk specialist practice, MBS Insurance, has joined the Bombora Advice group, as the business seeks to capitalise on the opportunities of the post-FOFA/Trowbridge era....

Financial planning

BGL Corporate Solutions partners with InvestmentLink to extend offering to platforms and wraps data....

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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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