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Hejaz launches financial advice service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
... products and services is growing. There are over 800,000 Muslims living in Australia and Dhedy believes that financial advice needs to become more tailored to their customer demands. "Australians want their investments to reflect their values, whether ...

UK regulator to inspect advice and guidance rules

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2022
... qualified financial adviser." Pritchard highlighted that due to the costs involved only the wealthy can access financial advice. "Mass market consumers are often left to navigate a bewilderingly large choice with little support." She said this will remove ...

Industry funding model discussion commences

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... sub-sectors with similar types of entities and similar types of regulated activity, like having two sub-sectors within financial advice - in place of four. One would be for licensees providing personal advice to retail clients on relevant financial products ...

Tech providers support QAR SOA proposals

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022
... good advice duty and said she believes it can allow for more innovative and consumer-centric ways of delivering financial advice, that are flexible for both provider and consumer. "However, there's a contrasting effect I will highlight," she said. ...

More consolidation is needed, says Diverger chief

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
Diverger managing director Nathan Jacobsen believes more consolidation must happen within the financial advice industry. "I think we are one of the larger service providers and yet, by listed company standards, we're small," he explained in a recent ...

Advice technologies seeing adoption boom

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... New data has highlighted several technologies that are experiencing high year-on-year growth and adoption by financial advice firms. Netwealth's 2022 AdviceTech Report identified niche technologies and those growing in popularity by AdviceTech Stars ...

FPA calls for sunset on experience pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... ethics unit should still be required though, 80% said. "While the FPA shares the government's goal of making financial advice more affordable and accessible to Australian consumers, simply providing an experience pathway alone is not going to achieve ...

Advisers given access to wellbeing service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
MLC Life is rolling out its Vivo health and wellness service to the financial advice practices it partners with. The insurer said making the service available to financial advisers and their staff for free will help ease the high levels of stress in ...

Retirement fears on the rise: AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... and services," Hillier said. "The Quality of Advice Review should also lead to more affordable and accessible financial advice."

Acquisitions underpin WT Financial Group results

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2022
... committed to the space. You don't go and invest $20 million in acquisitions without having real confidence in the financial advice landscape," he told Financial Standard. "We've indicated to the market that we expected this sort of result for ...