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Why wait for Royal Commission to address trust?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... built by the FPA would be undermined if the proposal was adopted. "The FPA and many others in the financial planning profession have spent 20 years building a culture of learning amongst planners. These announcements by FASEA and a refusal to acknowledge ...

No view on ending adviser commissions: AMP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... conceded he believed that moving exclusively to a fee-for-service model is "much more consistent with the idea of a profession."

Aged care becomes critical for advisers

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Financial advice practices are waking to the idea that specialist aged and disability care advisers will become necessary for any planning business to thrive in coming decades. Mentor Education founder and director Mark Sinclair said the advice industry ...

Advice not yet a real profession: Kell

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
In his statement to the Royal Commission, ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell argued financial advice is not yet a profession. Kell told Special Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that while there are professionals in the industry, "we do not view the industry as ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Saxo Capital Markets Australia has launched its new active trading platform that will let users trade over 35,000 financial instruments at no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller ...

OneVue to create digital community via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
OneVue acquired an online education platform for both financial advisers and consumers as part of a wider strategy to better connect the advice and funds management industries with investors. OneVue has bought digital distribution and education platform ...

ASIC lifts licence conditions on CountPlus subsidiary

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
ASIC has lifted the licence conditions it imposed on a CountPlus subsidiary after it paid $2.5 million in remediation to its clients following a compliance issue in 2015. In September, 2015 ASIC placed additional licence conditions on Total Financial ...

Advisers no longer standing still on social media

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
Financial advisers are no longer sitting on their hands when it comes to social media, using various platforms to have the most meaningful conversations with clients. Latch Social founder and director Tom Loneragan said social media has become a crucial ...

FPA to fight latest FASEA proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... accessibility to advice for consumers, as well as higher costs. "The FPA and many others in the financial planning profession have spent 20 years building a culture of learning amongst planners. These announcements by FASEA and a refusal to acknowledge ...

Robo-advisers a hard pill to swallow for Aussie investors: CFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
Australian retail investors are more likely to trust human financial planners over robo-advisers - and by an overwhelming majority, according to the CFA Institute's 2018 survey of investor trust. More than 80% of the Aussie retail investors surveyed ...