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Universities cutting courses could cruel financial advice expansion

The demand for financial advice and advisers is rising, but universities are closing the courses that train them. That’s a problem for everyone.

Andrew Hobbs

It seems like the financial planning sector could be, well, a lot better planned.

Just as the demand for planners is forecast to surge as the Baby Boomers and Generation X plough on to retirement, the universities that offer the courses needed to train them are cutting them.

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Andrew Hobbs covers self-managed superannuation funds, financial planning, retirement and inheritance. He has been a financial journalist for more than 25 years, working previously at Bloomberg and Australian Associated Press.

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