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FPA retaliates against proposal to raise insurance premiums....

Financial planning

When it comes to a financial planner’s education, is taking the easy road an advantage or disadvantage? Michael Dale answers this by sharing his own experiences of studyi...

Financial planning

Grant Holley provides insight into how money is laundered and what suspicious transactions might look like, which financial planners should keep in mind when dealing with...

Financial planning

Recent fund collapses have served to highlight the value of advice....

Financial planning

Financial planners stink and industry funds are great. Or vice versa. Apparently one is supposed to pick a side....

Financial planning

DDH Graham provides advisers with better access to information....

Financial planning

The FPA endorses latest protection initiative from the ATO....

Financial planning

Single mechanism being suggested....

Financial planning

Legislation to streamline prudential regulation has been introduced into parliament....

Financial planning

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Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association campaign for tax reform to enable higher levels of financial services exports has been bolstered by a key Parliamentary ...

Financial planning

For many years the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been urging the financial services industry to take a greater self-regulatory role in compl...

Financial planning

Research commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has suggested policy and legislative changes encouraging the export of Australian financial ser...

Financial planning

Industry associations broadly welcomed the introduction of the Simpler Regulatory System Bill into the House of Representatives yesterday....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week 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....

5 days 16 hours ago

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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