The Institute of Chartered Accountants has called for financial planners to move to a fee-for-service model, stating that commission payments inherently result in conflic...

The Association of Financial Advisers has, for the first time in its history, created a role of chief executive officer, and appointed Richard Klipin, ING’s former head o...

Focussing on providing services to the adviser and not the licence holder will be the major focus for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) in 2006, says president ...

Australia needs a “risk champion” to encourage younger people to enter into the risk industry, according to MetLife senior vice-president Joe Jordan....

The Association of Financial Advisers has launched a year-long training program to try to attract younger risk advisers to the profession....

Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...

The Association of Financial Advisers’ long quest to resolve its designation woes will come to fruition at the end of the month when advisers officially take on its new F...

Trends in the risk market are set to mirror recent developments in the platform market through the introduction of a wider range of simpler products over coming years to ...

A Sydney-based adviser who has built-up the funds under advice in his one-man business to $120 million over 24 years, has been acknowledged as the industry's best risk sp...

A Sydney-based adviser who has built up the funds under advice in his one-man business to $120 million over 24 years has been acknowledged as the industry’s best risk spe...

The Association of Financial Advisers has a new president with Robin Yates this morning relinquishing the key role to former vice president Michael Murphy at the associat...

The Association of Financial Advisers has hinted at a possible collective merger with other industry associations at its annual conference in Launceston, while also annou...

The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...

The Parlimentary Secretary to the Treasurer Ross Cameron has ordered an investigation into adviser access to client files and remuneration after Brisbane based advisory g...