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New research undertaken by CommInsure has reinforced the long-term implications of the Government's remuneration restrictions around the sale of life/risk insurance withi...
Financial planning
AFA signals it will be working to align its Principles of Practice with the outline contained in ASIC consultation paper....
Financial planning
The FPA says its upgraded professional code of conduct will be ready to go as soon as ASIC has finalised the new requirements....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has announced changes to its Code of Professional Practice in order to bring it in line with the Australian Securities and Investment C...
Financial planning
ASIC has released a consultation paper to determine how a professional code of conduct will obviate the need for a financial adviser to comply with opt-in provisions cont...
Financial planning
The financial planning university challenge run through AMP's Horizons program has attracted more than twice the number of entrants than in its first year, with a La Trob...
Financial planning
With major legislative change set to occur, the role software, technology and new media are playing in financial planning today is unprecedented....
Financial planning
AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....
Editorial
The trouble with APES 230 is that it goes much further than FOFA, with a prohibition on commissions and the elimination of asset-based fee arrangements....
Financial planning
With dealer groups looking to service untapped markets, rural and regional Australia could represent a perfect growth opportunity for financial planners....
Editorial
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has outlined the draft ground rules on conflicted remuneration and, as Mike Taylor writes, there are inevitable impac...
Editorial
While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...
Accounting
The introduction of the APES 230 ethical standards for accountants will not affect WHK's business model, according to the dealer group's chief risk officer Craig Lake....
Financial planning
BT chief Brad Cooper outlines growth push based on financial planner alignment and product quality....
Financial planning
Funds manager Vanguard Investments has announced that it intends publishing quarterly portfolio holdings for all of its funds from this month onwards....
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...