QUALITY OF ADVICE REVIEW

Financial planning

The Joint Association Working Group (JAWG) has written an open letter to the financial services minister Stephen Jones stating the QOA must avoid “easy wins”....

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Financial planning

Despite over 12,000 financial advisers leaving over the last four years, Adviser Ratings reveals that almost a quarter are thinking of following suit in 2023....

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Financial planning

Despite changes enforced by the Hayne Royal Commission, the current prescriptive model has detrimentally affected the quality of advice provided to consumers, according t...

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Financial planning

Phil Anderson, CEO of the Association of Financial Advisers, is hopeful the Government will embrace the ‘brave’ ideas put forward by Michelle Levy in the Quality of Advic...

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Financial planning

Adviser Ratings has provided a closer look at some of the themes expected to dominate the advice industry this year....

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Editorial

2022 has been a unique year where advisers have been able to share their views and thoughts on how the industry should be shaped going forward....

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Financial planning

The idea of doing away with Statements of Advice is misguided, according to an advice consultancy, and advisers should instead consider how they can capture clients’ atte...

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Features

Former commandos Warren Loudon and David Vaughan launched their financial planning firm with the goal of “providing life changing advice to good people.”...

Financial planning

Michelle Levy is expecting to see a rise in digital tools as she believes it is unnecessary for all advice to be provided to consumers by a financial adviser....

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Financial planning

The Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association believes the Quality of Advice Review proposals classifying broker research as personal financial advice will have ne...

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Financial planning

Treasury has confirmed the next stage for the Quality of Advice Review will be a proposal paper which will be issued within weeks and seek adviser feedback....

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Financial planning

The Advisers Association says it is “extremely unfair” that well-qualified, experienced, professional advisers have to go through more hoops than finfluencers to provide ...

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Editorial

Multiple individual advisers have made submissions to the Quality of Advice Review, providing a valuable ‘ground level’ insight of the profession. ...

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Financial planning

Individual submissions to the Quality of Advice Review have found financial advisers around the country are in dispute as to whether financial technology could help to re...

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Financial planning

Adding personal advice to Centrelink’s bulk billing framework is among recommendations put to the Quality of Advice Review by a founding member of the Financial Planning ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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