Financial planners may be upset with Club Plus' Paul Cahill for some of his recent comments, but they should embrace his acknowledgement of the value of advice, Mike Tayl...

The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....

An online petition addressed to the Minster for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, is calling for ‘opt in’ to be scrapped....

Superannuation funds are being urged to make sure they are ready to provide financial advice to members in a sustainable way over the coming year....

Although most advisers are working to improve the public image of the advice industry, the next generation is in a better position to do so....

Despite evidence showing increasing consumer demand for Internet and phone-based simple financial advice outside of super, the industry seems to be moving at a snail’s pa...

Super fund members are reluctant to take up financial advice due to lack of knowledge in what the offering entails and the cost involved, according to research by Profess...

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

One of the unintended consequences of the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms may be a shortage of 'generalist' financial planners, according to ...

The legislative changes evolving from the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms may force the Federal Government to finally move on the tax treatment of legacy financ...

There is a distinct difference in adequate levels of insurance between people who have received financial advice and those who have not, according to a new piece of resea...

The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...

The current reform revolution is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get it right and improve trust in the industry, but several proposed changes risk taking the reform...

Tight deadlines relating to the implementation of higher adviser education standards will test the UK planning industry....