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The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the exclusion of insurance from the Investment and Financial Services Association's new superannuation charter....
Superannuation
New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...
Financial planning
The Financial Ombudsman Service appears set to be able to accept complaints by consumers against financial advisers up to a value of $500,000 from next year....
Financial planning
TPD has become the victim of popular fallacies, and advisers are the best qualified to tackle and dispel them, writes COL FULLAGAR....
Financial planning
Rising costs and tighter margins making it harder for individuals to run a financial planning business....
Accounting
Dealer group Hillross is exploiting a growing trend by accounting firms to include financial planning in their offering to help drive its growth....
Life/Risk
AIG Life attempts to bridge insurance education gap with a new online insurance education centre....
Financial planning
A push is underway to extend premium tax deductibility within superannuation to critical illness insurance. SEAN MCCORMACK outlines the positives such a move would genera...
Superannuation
SAM WALL responds to financial planners’ top queries following the recent Federal Budget....
Superannuation
FABIAN BUSSOLETTI takes a look at acquiring property assets through self-managed superannuation funds....
Life/Risk
Businesses are being warned against entering into uncommercial insurance arrangements in pursuit of tax deductions....
Life/Risk
Complexity of insurance requires specialised advice: Penkin....
Life/Risk
Broker pleaded guilty to one count of dishonesty and two counts of engaging in dishonest conduct....
Financial planning
Salary freezes and reductions, job cuts and drawn-out recruitment processes: challenging times lie ahead, but the diversity of the financial services sector means a varie...
Editorial
Tower Australia Group has reported a 12 per cent decline in net profit but prefers to point to the positives contained in its underlying profit result....
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