A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...
Australian Ethical is in the market for a new chief executive following the decision by incumbent Anne O'Donnell to stand down in early December....
AMAL AWAD examines how dealer group performance and planner numbers have held up over the past year in the face of a global financial crisis....
In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are to join together to push regulatory reform of the financial services industry....
Rewards have dropped by 6.8 per cent while fixed income growth has slowed to 2.8 per cent....
Clients are generally far better informed about the markets and their investments than before the onset of the global financial crisis, according to Alan Harrison, chief ...
One of the traditional strongholds of financial planners, insurance sales, may be under threat, with the intra-fund advice regime giving superannuation funds the power to...
Global CEO appointed to steer company through debt problems will not renew contract....
The industry needs to work harder at managing and explaining risk for super members, while planners must determine what clients hope to achieve through their investments....
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has named the corporate regulator, along with itself and Storm Financial, as one of the key stakeholders involved in the circumstances ...
Will be responsible for developing new institutional business and growing future prospects in Australia....
IFSA defends legislative requirements but says areas of financial services regime could be improved....
The VOA awards are designed to promote and define the value of professional advice....
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....