The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has warned that the salaried financial advisers of banking institutions may not have to disclose all the influences inducing t...
Money Management’s Financial Planner of the Year award is getting bigger and better every year, with increasing numbers of nominations, finalists and, this year, even jud...
The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...
Risk selling is about selling relationships, not products. Julie Bennett and Freya Purnell report....
The ongoing legacy of the HIH Insurance collapse in Australia is the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance. Mike Taylor reports....
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is seeking direction from Government, and in turn the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, on guarantees to prote...
Victorian-based adviser Bernie Toohey has been named the inaugural ‘Zurich Adviser of the Year’, by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Zurich Financial Servi...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) officially launched its new professional designations yesterday at the AFA National Conference in Queensland....
The Australian insurance industry must focus on product manufacture and marketing as too many people are both uninsured and under-insured, according to AXA’s financial pr...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reacted to industry criticism of the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have hit out at comments by the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) financial services senior policy officer Catherine Wol...
As the call for professional standards echoes around Asia, various industry bodies are lining up for a piece of the action. Ben Abbott reports....
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has finally settled on a professional designation for its members, registering the Authorised Financial Adviser Australia (AFA...
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has released a position paper slamming the industry over conflicts of interest and calling for greater l...
The proposed meeting between a number of small dealer groups in Sydney next month has been postponed after concerns regarding the direction and nature of a proposed natio...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....