BENJAMIN LEVY reports on the growing use of reverse mortgages to shore up diminishing client wealth....
The nature of managed investment schemes has come under close scrutiny in the recent Environinvest case, writes James Lonie....
Reverse mortgage products are attracting a new breed of strategic senior borrowers who are proving the industry’s naysayers wrong, argues MARTIN LYNCH....
The financial services industry needs to be alert to the fact that the Government is tightening regulatory control of the industry and its markets – not in a legislative ...
Completes last of 39 proceedings brought against Primelife since 2004....
The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is gauging the industry's reaction to the possible implementation of a two-tier advice system of independent and affiliated...
The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has acknowledged the conflicting positions of Treasury and ASIC on financial planning....
Twelve criminal charges of fraud laid by ASIC following investigation into the affairs of Perpetual Acquisitions Pty Ltd and Robina Properties (Qld) Pty Ltd....
The Parliamentary Joint Committee has been told that the absence of tax deductibility with respect to fee-for-service advice is creating a market distortion....
Today is officially the last day advisers can use Statements of Additional Advice as part of their advice process....
ASIC warns that Australians facing financial stress are falling prey to schemes promoting illegal early access to superannuation....
IFSA has called for full tax deductibility of financial advice at an inquiry hearing today into financial products and services before the Parliamentary Joint Committee o...
Professional Investment Services has appointed the final member of its new-look management team, with Kelly Wyman joining as group general manager, services....
Samuel David Saunders of Orange in New South Wales, a former director of several companies, has pleaded guilty to three counts of obtaining money by false or misleading s...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s submission to the Ripoll Inquiry has raised the stakes for the future of the financial planning industry but has al...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...