FINANCIAL Planning consultant Paul Resnik is preparing to put his money where his mouth is with plans to launch a chain of financial planning offices....
FINANCIAL advisers will not need to disclose commission on risk products thanks to the lobbying efforts of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....
Pauline Vamos has been named the most influential person in financial services by a panel of industry peers....
Pauline Vamos has been named the most influential person in financial services by a panel of industry peers....
Hundreds of advisers around the country have being forced to quit the financial planning industry after failing to comply with the new compulsory education requirements u...
THE increasingly bitter dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) over financial planning designations has ...
There is a saying that old advisers never die, they just re-write their life insurance policies....
IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...
An insurance group that has agreed to establish a facility to provide professional indemnity insurance for members of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will tur...
The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....
Are you thinking that risk insurance is not the force it once was? Well it may be time to think again as the product that built the industry re-asserts itself. JASON SPIT...
For my last article, I normally summarise my previous articles for the year. However this time I want to only do that in part. That’s because this year was the last year ...
Financial services industry educators are heading for showdown with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) after the latter announced large scale changes to the way the...
There is a future role for advisers specialising in risk products as many financial planners do not sell risk products, this creates opportunities for risk advisers to be...
APIR, the group responsible for providing codes for managed funds, has scored a major coup with the announcement that the Association of Financial Advisers had signed up ...
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....