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Financial planning

Money Management explores which actions the Financial Services and Credit Panel is taking when it considers the outcomes of cases. ...

Financial planning

Industry experts are expectant of video statements of advice gaining in popularity as the Quality of Advice Review loosens rules on what advice documentation should look ...

People & Products

The risk management and compliance system has announced internal leadership changes amidst its plans to fully automate the financial advice assurance process through AI....

Financial planning

Licensees should ensure they pre-vet any advice given, according to Fourth Line, as it is no longer acceptable to conduct retrospective audits....

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Financial planning

Advisers need to be innovative in how they present a Statement to Advice to clients as the future of the document will be less about regulation and more about presentatio...

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Financial planning

Failing to ensure clients understand risk profile questionnaires can mean advisers fail the ‘know your client’ obligation and leave them open to a complaint with only a 3...

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Financial planning

Analysis of around 5,000 statements of advice found not one adviser mentioned home equity release or reverse mortgage strategies....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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