EDITORIAL

The banks are out, scores of advisers are heading for the exits and it is time for Governments to stand back and let the financial planning industry succeed. ...

As more advisers leave the industry and the cost of financial advice delivery rises, superannuation funds are destined to play a greater role. These circumstances make it...

As MLC advisers contemplate their migration to working under IOOF licenses, they might consider how different the story would be if they were individually licensed....

By the time Australia kicks off 2021, many more businesses will be closed and many more people will be officially unemployed, as opposed to the synthetic unemployment rat...

Many things have changed in the Australian life insurance industry since the Life Insurance Framework was put in place meaning that the Australian Securities and Investme...

As the Government seeks to pull the Australian economy out of recession it should silence those on its backbench who are undermining confidence in the superannuation regi...

Regular Parliamentary Committee scrutiny of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have helped win the adviser support it so badly needs....

Too many Governments have looked for quick fixes where financial adviser regulation is concerned and it is time for an audit and the removal of costly and unnecessary lay...

There has been a good deal of policy kite-flying around superannuation but it is arguably too important for policy kite-flying. ...

Australia’s litigation funders have, by and large, done a good job but few in the financial services industry will argue against making them rise to the requirements of h...

The Hayne Royal Commission did not get everything right and the Government should use its six-month implementation deferral to appropriately review the things that the Co...

With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework just around the corner, the last thing life/risk advisers need is criti...

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