Robo Advice: Leverage efficiencies while enhancing the value of personal guidance

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Technology is fast evolving the landscape of our industry. One such example, and relatively new in practice, is robo advice – where financial advice providers focus on creating a technology-driven... Read more continue reading

Rubik goes live with MyState Digital Transformation

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Rubik Financial Limited (ASX: RFL), a leading technology company delivering innovative banking, wealth and lending solutions to the financial services industry, is pleased to announce it has gone live with... Read more continue reading

Fees for service not necessarilty a hallmark of professionalism

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Synchron Director, Don Trapnell says the financial advice industry has its head in the clouds if it sincerely believes a fee-for-service model for risk advice is a more professional way... Read more continue reading

Compass Index reveals shifts in business sentiments across Asia’s hubs

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According to the Compass Index, where 1,200 respondents across seven countries in APAC were surveyed, employees in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Australia weren’t too optimistic about how external factors... Read more continue reading

FPA Award winners and top performers recognised at FPA Congress

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The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced the winners of the 2016 FPA Awards and the latest winner of the Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award at the opening keynote... Read more continue reading

FPA announces impending Money & Life website launch

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The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has announced it will soon launch Money & Life, an online destination designed to help Australians improve their financial wellbeing. The site will... Read more continue reading

Meridian Wealth Management young gun named Associate Financial Planner of the Year

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Melbourne-based financial services firm Meridian Wealth Management is celebrating the news that 26-year old Financial Advisor Cody Harmon has been awarded the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Associate Financial Planner of... Read more continue reading

How digital automation can help offset Australia’s 492 per cent regulation boom (and restore a little trust)

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Damage control does not come cheap. Just ask Dongjin Koh, President of Mobile at Samsung Electronics. Koh told press in October this year that the total recall of the inflammable... Read more continue reading

What does the next gen of advisers have to offer?

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One of the biggest challenges currently facing the financial profession is age. Not the age of clients – with retiring baby boomers predicted to contribute to 32 percent growth in... Read more continue reading

CER – Comparative Emerging Regulations

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Since FSRA hit the market in 2004, NZ observers have been watching the progress and developments of the post-regulatory experience in the financial services industry in Australia. With the introduction... Read more continue reading