The Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA) sponsorship of research by KPMG and Econotech that defines the value of financial advice was both necessary and...
Research from Wealth Insights and Investment Trends reinforces the degree to which financial planners understand the need for remuneration reform....
Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...
Regional financial planners face the same broad issues as those in metropolitan areas, but they also face a number of issues that city slickers do not....
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....
ASIC’s class order that created the Statement of Additional Advice (SoAA) is history. And good riddance, says Brett Walker. ...
To what degree should dealer groups filter the data they receive from research houses and what impact is this having on the quality of financial advice?...
The cost of providing financial advice has not been readily measured or quantified across the industry, writes Paul Barrett....
In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....
Dispensations granted to superannuation funds with respect to intra-fund advice are what many had hoped for but they carry the risk of reputational damage if things go wr...
Financial planning commissions may not be extinct but they are now a seriously endangered species....
Financial planners must take the lessons they’ve learnt from the GFC and begin applying them if they hope to survive the next economic upheaval....
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 ...