The SMSF Association has backed a Productivity Commission recommendation to rename “general advice” in circumstances where the information provided to clients by some adv...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has made clear it will not tolerate any blurring of the status of trainee advisers, with planning firms needing to ma...
The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is at an inflection point and may have already lost the hearts ...
Letters sent to the clients of some Dover advisers reveal that 7 July looms as the day they lose platform access unless they have found a new licensee....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has removed any lingering doubts about the future of Dover financial and its principal, Terry McMaster, but has left ...
New analysis from Adviser Ratings has confirmed that more than 40 per cent of Dover advisers were recruited from the major bank licensees, AMP or IOOF....
The Association of Financial Advisers is arguing that advisers who will be aged 55 or over as at 31 December, 2023 should not have to climb the same education mountain as...
Self-licensed planners who want to exit the industry in the current Royal Commission/FASEA environment should not be penalised by unrealistic license cancellation fees, a...
The second Netwealth AdviceTech research report has shown that technology adoption and implementation among advice practices is cause for concern....
The Federal Treasury’s position paper dealing with the Government’s retirement income covenant has specified a positive role for planners in helping develop personalised ...
Over 17,000 advisers may need to complete further education under the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s reforms, including 1,000 who are close to retirem...
Publicly-listed insurer, ClearView, has launched an online payment facility enabling financial advisers to charge a flat fee for insurance advice. ...
Emerging market funds have actually out-performed the S&P/ASX 200 index over the past three years, but participants in Money Management’s January Investment Analyst webin...
The Association of Financial Advisers has warned ASIC that the nature of its industry funding regime is such that the vast majority of good financial advisers is being ma...
Self-licensed advisers may be independent but desire peer-based learning to see how other businesses implemented solutions and strategies....
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 ...