EDITORIAL

The reasons for churn in the life/risk arena are long-standing and well-known and insurers need to accept their share of the blame....

With the right advice behind them, retirees can easily re-enter the workforce without jeopardising their pension benefits, Mark Teale writes....

If Storm Financial has dogged the reputations of financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that the findings of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corrupti...

Craig Swanger shares his fears about equity hybrids and the impact they could have on investors...

Financial planners gave mixed reactions to reports that a company related to real estate icon, Ray White, would be venturing into the financial planning space but is the ...

Investing in stocks in Asia is not for the faint-hearted given the scope of the region and the range of investments on offer. However, as Jason Spits writes, accessing so...

Heidi Nash-Smith and Jack Geng explore the controversy surrounding the Financial Ombudsman Service and how ASIC can redress the power imbalance....

While it may sound paradoxical, approaching financial planning like a friendship or relationship could be the key to improving professionalism, Nataliya Denisov writes. ...

Still haunted by memories of the GFC, investors are excessively focusing on yield to the detriment of diversification. Knowing how crises manifest in different ways, they...

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

Craig Swanger writes about the impact the downgrade on bank hybrids could have on investors. ...

With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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