FUTURE OF FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

With legislative change sweeping across the financial services industry, BT Financial Group has launched a website designed to keep advisers up to date with the latest po...

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Financial planning

The rise of scaled advice and fee-for-service models ahead of the start of the Future of Financial Advice legislation has made the need to lower advice costs even more im...

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Financial planning

With remuneration models under scrutiny in the face of significant regulatory overhaul such as the removal of volume rebates due to Future of Financial Advice reforms, ad...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....

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Policy & Regulation

Despite FOFA reforms now being imminent, there are several regrettable reasons many businesses are using to delay addressing the changes, according to a paper from PwC an...

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Life/Risk

Synchron has slammed the FSC's new life insurance churn policy as "disgraceful"....

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Policy & Regulation

The Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has predicted that few of the financial services reforms implemented by the Gillard Government will be amended or repea...

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Financial planning

Evidence is emerging that dealer groups around the country are struggling to find replacements for retiring regional planning practice principals and are abandoning them ...

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Top 100

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

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Top 100

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has agreed to a FOFA carve-out for commissions paid on time share sales....

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Financial planning

Boutique financial planning practices can increase their efficiency and save money by moving their administration overseas, according to JC Consulting managing director J...

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Financial planning

Following a number of staff departures since the start of the year, accounting firm WHK Group has made changes to its management structure....

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Financial planning

The debate about so-called 'transition payments' being paid to planners is 'a little overhyped', according to financial planning consultant Wayne Wilson....

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Accounting

It may be as late as mid-2013 before the new accountants' advice regime is up and running....

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