Traditional financial advice models that service higher-net-worth clients don't work for average Australians and a paradigm shift is needed in the industry....
It’s vital that the superannuation industry find ways to overcome apathy and boost the public’s understanding of and engagement with their super....
In the current climate of economic uncertainty, financial planners who insist clients not make any change need to remember our role is to advise not direct....
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....
Financial planners are now an accepted part of the Australian superannuation industry, but there remains plenty of disagreement about how they should be paid, according t...
Attitudes seem to be changing in the superannuation industry as to whether financial planners can offer appropriate advice when remunerated by commissions....
Even the strongest of client relationships can be tested when returns are weak. As Tom Reddacliff explains, long-term relationships between financial planners and their c...
Col Fullagar explains the many advantages rehabilitation benefits provide income protection insurance policies....
An Australian Crime Commission report into investment scams has underscored the role financial planners have in protecting investors from themselves....
When the chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Pauline Vamos, last week issued a release clearly aimed at countering adverse rep...
The financial planning industry has been undertaking some intense lobbying in recent weeks in the hope of extracting some key amendments to the Government’s Future of Fin...
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 ...