Most of the industry input around advice education standards came from institutions and industry associations, and lacked input from all stakeholders....
Financial planners should offer tailored licensing regimes with certain authorisations to accountants instead of trying to shoehorn them into the planner model, The Fold ...
Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....
ASIC numbers revealed application and approval numbers remained low for accountants even as the removal of the accountants exemption for advising on SMSFs loomed....
The FSC proposed a 22 per cent company tax rate in its tax reform package to boost Australia’s competitiveness while lower tax rates would be paid for by a higher GST....
A former Macquarie Equities Limited representative has been banned from providing financial services following investigations by ASIC as part of its Wealth Management Pro...
Robo-advice should be used to examine investors’ choices and enhance their investments rather than starting from scratch. ...
A lobby group has opposed the Government’s move to limit brokers’ use of client funds to hedge against their financial risks. ...
Financial advisers were ‘pawns’ in the financial industry to distribute products in the past, but this will no longer cut muster, a consultant firm principal believes. ...
Reforms to education for advisers should include pathways for existing advisers, and risk advisers with decades of experience should not have to re-train....
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 ...
Professional services group AZ NGA has made its first acquisition since announcing a $240 million strategic partnership with US manager Oaktree Capital Management in Sept...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...