The AFA will release its Financial Advice Competency Framework at its conference this week, in which it outlines the skills and attributes required by advisers....
ASIC has released its Cost Recovery Implementation Statement outlining its estimated regulatory costs in 2017/18 as part of the industry funding model. ...
FOS has received a record number of disputes in the 2016/17 year, driven mainly by general insurance which made up 38 per cent of the increase....
Fidelity International has announced plans to introduce a variable management fee model in its active equity capabilities....
The TPB is inviting submissions from recognised professional associations on a draft information sheet on corporate governance....
IOOF has completed the acquisition of National Australia Trustees Limited by its trustee business, AET, after entering into an agreement with NAB in June....
Planners are switching insurers at record levels, while many advisers are seeking additional support to expand their life insurance advice....
Advisers may be unaware their TPB registration expires at the end of October, warning them they may put their business at risk....
Most Australians trusted their financial adviser over their financial institutions, while there was disconnect between their risk appetite and expected returns....
Financial advisers could explore workplace super as an opportunity to grow their client base and revenue stream and become the point of employee contact....
Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....
A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...
Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...