Financial planners need to develop new business models that take into account the two phases of retirement - active and elderly, according to Phil Galagher....
Samantha Hills provides tips for financial planners on how to manage and avoid conflicts of interest when dealing with clients, ahead of the proposed FOFA changes....
With many in the life insurance industry falling behind or struggling to keep up, Brett Yardley looks at some of the changes that have or are about to occur....
Putting aside the increasingly open question of whether the Gillard Labor Government will remain in power long enough to oversee the implementation of its Future of Finan...
The use by Industry Super Network (ISN) of research and surveying organisations to help prosecute its agenda with respect to financial planning represents the transfer of...
Alexei Piltiaev explains how implementing the right software solution can help financial planning businesses tackle the compliance and administration issues flowing from ...
Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...
If Australian financial planner sentiment is to follow the patterns of the past decade, the global markets meltdown experienced in the opening days of August is likely to...
A significant portion of the Australian population does not understand what constitutes financial advice and that it remains far too easy for people operating well outsid...
The Government's pursuit of its FOFA reforms has degenerated into trench warfare, with the financial planning industry 'digging in' to fight the changes. ...
Andrew Bailo takes a look at the issues arising from the Future of Financial Advice reforms, and concludes that the harmful changes outweigh the beneficial ones....
Tim Browne shares his views and presents some case histories as he surveys the much-debated topic of banning commissions for risk insurance within superannuation. ...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...