PAUL HARDING-DAVIS

Features

As Mike Taylor takes his leave from Money Management, he reflects upon the well-intentioned 2001 legislation which proved to have so many adverse, unintended consequences...

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Financial planning

The Corporations Act still dictates that the sale of a product remains integral to the definition of financial advice and regulating around that fact is like trying bang ...

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Financial planning

Wholesale clients should have the financial capability and knowledge necessary to rely on professional indemnity insurance rather than accessing the proposed new compensa...

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Financial planning

Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

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Financial planning

With AMP Capital representing the jewel in the crown of AMP Limited, what will the bidders for the business have in mind for AMP’s financial planning business?...

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Financial planning

Financial planning licensees are urging a highly cautious approach on their planners because of the continuing uncertainty around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Financial Planning Association may well have identified a key element of the future of the financial advice industry but no one should overloo...

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Financial planning

Both advisers and their clients are opting for telephone and screen-based consultations amid growing fears around transmission of the coronavirus....

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Financial planning

Rising authorised representative costs might make it more sensible for independent financial advisers with relatively low turnovers to consider becoming salaried planners...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...

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Financial planning

Former dealer group chief executive, Paul Harding-Davis has questioned whether it is possible to separate product from advice when the underlying legislation actually tie...

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Financial planning

A former dealer group head and current investment committee chairman believes the Royal Commission and the regulators have failed to identify the practices of some platfo...

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