The average financial planning practice has a lot of room for improvement in major areas such as client communication and succession planning, according to data from fina...

The Future of Financial Advice reforms may have passed through the House of Representatives but there is plenty of unknown detail causing concern to the major association...

Australia's current financial markets' regulatory structure gives it an advantage compared to the byzantine structures in other markets, according to Nick Sherry....

Stephen Bartholomew proposes financial advisers take the Future of Financial Advice reforms into their own hands....

Money Management's new iPad edition is out now, bringing you our best in news, features and commentary, as well as loads of exclusive content....

There are a number of options available to accountants wishing to branch out into financial planning. Adam McGruen outlines the pros and cons of each....

Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has taken a majority stake in Certainty Financial, a corporate advisory firm with $500m in funds under advice....

The Financial Planning Standards Board has praised its member organisation, the Financial Planning Association, for its efforts in negotiating some of the key legislative...

While the financial services industry has welcomed the delayed implementation of the FOFA reforms, the eleventh-hour nature of the decision has cost the big institutions ...

Blended families create unique challenges and need a new approach when planning super death benefits, according to two SPAA advisers....

The ownership of financial planners by product manufacturers creates one of the main barriers to improving the quality of advice in Australia, according to ASIC....

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

Though the death of SMSFs may have been regularly predicted in years past, modelling within Deloitte's Dynamics of the Australian Superannuation System report, released i...

Concerns ASIC and APRA were becoming increasingly politicised were brought to a head during the hearings into the FOFA reforms....