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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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Life/Risk

Behavioural economics sits at the heart of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new example statement of advice for life/risk advisers....

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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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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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