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Advice affordability is deteriorating and advice fees should be tax deductible, according to ClearView....

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Financial planning

The savings identified by the Financial Services Council in its new advice green paper are marginal, at best, according to the chief executive of major licensee, Countplu...

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Financial planning

The relief measure allowing advisers to provide a record of advice rather than a statement of advice to clients that needed advice due to the impact of COVID-19 has been ...

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Financial planning

The industry needs to simplify the way it presents advice to clients as statements of advice can increase anxiety for consumers and does not build trust, according to a p...

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Financial planning

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

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Financial planning

If doctors could accommodate the existence of paramedics, why can’t the financial advice profession accept a similar situation with respect to some lesser qualified advis...

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Financial planning

The cost of delivering advice could be reduced for both advisers and superannuation funds if the Australian Securities and Investments Commission delivered a templated re...

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Financial planning

Superannuation funds would be able to deliver advice around the questions most asked by members via a record of advice under a proposal being backed by the Association of...

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

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Financial planning

It is the cost of advice rather than trust that is stopping Australians from seeking financial advice, a report has found....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has created a guide to help planners digitally evolve their statements of advice....

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People & Products

Industry Fund Services and Advice RegTech have partnered to launch human-assisted machine learning artificial intelligence platform SAMI to help with automated regulatory...

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Financial planning

Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has confirmed that senior executives within BT Financial Group suffered significant remuneration consequences for issues raised at ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has urged ASIC to make further improvements to its example statement of advice....

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Superannuation

The corporate regulator has issued an instrument that would temporarily extend time to provide statements of advice for urgent superannuation advice....

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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 ...

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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