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FINANCIAL PLANNING

Editorial

Those pursuing a Royal Commission into the financial planning industry need to stop spinning and get their facts straight....

Financial planning

New US research suggests planners should embrace robo-advice platforms as a useful tool for servicing a particular client segment....

Financial planning

Financial planners are embracing tablets and showing their willingness to spend on technology to better integrate their businesses but Xplan continues to be the most-used...

Policy & Regulation

Specialist lawyer calls for scrapping of key financial services laws that are outmoded and product-focused....

Financial planning

A life/risk adviser has been banned for four years by ASIC who acted on information provided by his licensee, Risk Advice Specialists, which has ceased to trade....

Financial planning

Yesterday’s appearance of IOOF chief executive, Chris Kelaher, before a Senate Committee has fuelled calls for a Royal Commission into financial planning....

Financial planning

Financial advisers must monitor the legality of foreign investment into Australian property, amidst calls for transparent rules to govern the investors....

Financial planning

Financial advice software provider Decimal will offer its online advice platform to more than 100,000 members of a customer-owned mutual bank....

Financial planning

Fiducian has started the new financial year by picking up a North Shore planning practice with more than $60 million in FUM, for $1.25 million....

Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former Provident Capital director from providing financial services for two years, after finding he had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in re...

Funds management

Australian Unity reveals strategy to utilise its Flinders acquisition to move into full suite trustee services....

Financial planning

Majority of those aged over 50 felt they were victims of age discrimination in the workforce in the finance sector, a recruitment firm survey showed....

Financial planning

Australia’s Big Four banks have re-signed licensing deals with software provider, Rubik Financial, as dealer groups and independent advisers weigh up their options....

Life/Risk

Specialist lawyer, Ian McDermott warns that licensees may be left carrying the can on claw-backs if advisers change dealer groups mid-stream....

Financial planning

Television personality David Koch picks up a stake in Adviser Ratings and points to financial literacy push....

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