A doctor-style fee-for-service model for all advice, including life insurance, would create unsustainability in the financial planning sector and prevent specialisation, ...

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

Centric Wealth has promoted financial planning veteran Celia Carroll to head up its Queensland group. ...

Adviser sentiment has plunged to its lowest level in two years across several measures as the financial advice profession is mired in negative publicity....

While considered foreboding by traditional investors, volatility in global markets is music to the ears those in the alternative space, Janine Mace writes. ...

The political wrangling around financial advice reforms have passed over the heads of most consumers who have yet to be convinced of their relevance according to Adviser ...

One of the newer Statements of Advice (SOA) requirements has been labelled unncecesary duplication by a legal expert, echoing fears raised by advisers about the growing c...

The Commonwealth Bank makes clear that former CommFP clients retain access to its Open Advice Review program irrespective of changing advisers. ...

IOOF recruits BTFG’s Daniel Dalton as new National Sales Manager, Investments....

Many advisers are struggling to find their place in the post-FOFA industry, leading to a surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and early retirements. ...

ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....

Financial advisers should require more than one semester unit in tax law if they want to be licensed to provide tax advice, the Institute of Public Accountants believes....

Synchron’s Don Trapnell urges risk advisers to counter worst elements of Trowbridge interim report, including five-year responsibility period....

BT Financial Group (BTFG) has been named as Risk Company of the Year in the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, securing the win from TAL and OnePath, whi...