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Financial Planning

ASIC charges former financial adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has charged a former financial adviser for failing to provide appropriate advice to clients.

ASIC delays start date for advisers exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has delayed the implementation of a national examination for financial advisers.

PIS award financial adviser of the year

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
The Professional Investment Services (PIS) announced the nine winners of its annual awards, which include Financial Adviser of the Year, Risk Adviser of the Year and Practice of the Year.

Planners must boost SMSF specialisation: SPAA

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
Financial planners must expand their skill set to offer advice on linking self managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to other business structures SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) membership and business development director Richard ...

ETFs boom on SMA model portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) holdings on OneVue's unified managed account (UMA) platform have tripled in the last nine months, new data shows, and migration to model portfolios highlights greater investor sophistication.

Centric Wealth recalibrates advice through newly-formed board

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Centric Wealth gives its clients a chance to voice their concerns and priorities in a more structured manner through a newly-formed client advisory board.

Platforms press on in advice battleground

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The role of platforms in driving planning practice costs down will only get bigger after research shows that despite the growth of self-directed and off-platform investing, the lion's share of assets under advice will remain on-platform.

AIA introduces 24 hour insurance processing

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
AIA Australia has released a tool that allows financial advisers to automatically process insurance applications.

Halifax to fix deficiencies after ASIC review

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
Halifax Investment Services (Halifax) will appoint an independent consultant to review its business after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found deficiencies in the business.

CFS FirstWrap enhances corporate actions feature

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Colonial First State (CFS) will be adding new functionality features to its FirstWrap platform in May.