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Advisers hampered by conflicted platforms

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... by the (platform providing) institutions - but they're not letting them on the menu," she said. The Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms would help a little bit, with advisers required to satisfy the "best interest" duty towards their client, she ...

Fraud adviser banned for life

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... Group and The County Group which operate financial planning businesses based in North Adelaide where he provided financial advice to clients of these businesses. ASIC said it had banned Bean in order to protect the public, deter similar conduct and maintain ...

Free advice sparks Financial Planning Week

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
Financial Planning Week kicks off today with six weeks of free online financial advice for consumers organised by the Financial Planning Association. The free advice is designed to give people a taste of what they could enjoy if they took the step of ...

Planners risk trouble opposing FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
Financial planners are shooting themselves in the foot by seeking to sink key elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Industry Super Fund Network has said. Industry Super Fund Network chief executive David Whiteley said the financial ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
Financial planners on the warpath over Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms were given a crash course in political lobbying today by Shadow Minister for Financial Services Senator Mathias Cormann, who told them to target the independents. Speaking ...

Adviser poaching just "noise": AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... the combined group is going to have a unique proposition because the core of what we do is providing quality financial advice, it is what we are focused on and that's very different from our major competitors. I think advisers will see there is a core ...

SMEs turning to advice, slowly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... with their SME structures explains however why these business owners naturally turn to their accountants for financial advice. But the report noted that they are increasingly seeking advice from financial planners, in addition to advice they receive ...

AMP/AXA promises best of both worlds

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Services. As far as planners are concerned, Meller was adamant that it would maintain its multi-brand approach to financial advice, with plans to use assets of the combined businesses to build value propositions to advisers. "These enhancements include ...

Infocus names new head of compliance

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... planning offices. Dixon, formerly manager of compliance and professional standards at ING Australia's Tandem Financial Advice network, will oversee the support and training of Infocus advisers in the areas of professional standards and compliance. Additionally ...

Midwinter takes on Coin, Xplan

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... super fund research project for advisers while expanding its AdviserTECH framework to suit the latest Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms. "What we are seeing are licensees and advisers purchasing the AdvsierTECH compliance tool due to FOFA structure ...