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Advice firm defrauds retired NFL players

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
The US regulator has charged a financial advice firm that defrauded former professional NFL players who had joined a class action against the league seeking compensation for brain injuries suffered during their careers. Tallahassee-based Cambridge Capital ...

Secrets to selling revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
Standards International founder Michelle Hoskin gives her tips for successfully selling a financial advice business. Appearing at the 2019 Association of Financial Advisers' National Conference, Hoskin revealed that businesses she had coached were worth ...

Life insurance leaders fear for industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
... insurance for consumers in the context of the current regulatory environment. Brooks argued that the affordability of financial advice is also under deep threat as regulatory changes drive up the price of financial advice. "Advice will be provided to ...

Adviser of the Year named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... principle of EQ Wealth and Quantum Wealth and has been a financial adviser for over a decade. Prior to entering the financial advice industry, Du Chesne was head of product for jewellery chain DIVA and global design director for Sheridan Australia. AFA ...

Client ethics the future of advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... your ethics," she said. "Women and millennials want their ethics to match with their finances." She said the financial advice industry has been slow to respond to this consumer pressure and pointed out there is room for advisers to consider how they ...

Risk commissions must be retained: MetLife

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... commission was. The majority also said that the removal of life risk commissions would not stop them from receiving financial advice. Given the choice of paying an upfront fee and lower premiums or no fee and higher premiums, 75% survey respondents said ...

Hejaz climbs Islamic fund ladder

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... confidence that we will meet our growth targets for the new fiscal year." Hejaz also provides Islamic compliant financial advice, accounting, estate planning and tax services. The company is set to expand their offering in the next 12 months to include ...

Advice association merger up to members

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
Whether Australia's peak bodies in financial advice merge is a matter for members to decide, according to Financial Planning Association of Australia chief executive Dante De Gori. Speaking at the Financial Services Council Summit in Sydney this ...

CFS slashes trail commissions on some funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... where they represent less than 5% of the total funds under management. The changes came into effect August 1. The financial advice industry is inching towards a complete phase out of grandfathered commissions, backed by the federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg ...

REP 515 divides advice community

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
Association of Financial Advisers' general manager, policy and professionalism Phil Anderson says the financial advice community has been split in two by the corporate regulator. Providing a policy outlook at the AFA National Conference in Adelaide ...