Article tagged with 'client first'
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Financial stress – more common than you might think
13 Jul 2021 - Recently we have examined the question of vulnerable customers and the Human Rights Commission report on vulnerable people has been central to our thinking.
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[The Wrap] Five predictions for 2020
10 Jan 2020 - It's the start of a new year and a new decade. While it's 2020, Philip Macalister looks ahead and makes some predictions around what may happen in the financial advice sector this year.
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[GRTV] Ballantyne on conduct and culture; who owns the client; the future of dealer groups and more
29 Nov 2019 - Partners Life managing director Naomi Ballantyne discusses the critical issues facing insurance advisers today.
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FMA has eye on conflicted conduct
31 Jan 2018 - New Zealand’s regulator is studying how conflicts of interests are managed in this country as its counterpart across the ditch raises concerns.
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Advisers told: Avoid conflicts with any other person
27 Feb 2017 - A new explanation of how advisers could be expected to legally put clients’ interests first is causing more confusion that it solves.
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Client-first may be too big an ask for biggest players
26 Jan 2017 - Is "client first" too much of a challenge for vertically-integrated organisations, such as banks? David Whyte ponders whether it's time to provide a carve-out for sales, as opposed to advice.
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Advisers tackle client-first question
28 Oct 2016 - A very useful session of industry commentators was held last week at a forum initiated by the IFA and PAA on the contentious subject of “putting the interests of the client first” versus “acting in the best interests of the client”, writes IFA chief executive Fred Dodds.
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Best interest 'unworkable'
02 Sep 2016 - A requirement to act in clients’ best interests is being described as “unworkable” in practice.