Consumer group Choice has argued financial advice is not always necessary in super and can actually disadvantage consumers....

ASFA has urged the Cooper Review to separate out advice fees in relation to super and to eliminate commission-based remuneration....

AIST calls for subsidisation of pre-retirement financial advice and tax deductibility for other advice....

A Financial Services Partners (FSP) practice has created an education tool intended to help members of generations x and y see the value in getting financial advice....

A recent parliamentary report lamented the poor educational skills of 'mum and dad' investors and their inability to critically analyse retail investment products. But is...

Having proven itself resilient, it is time for the Australian funds management industry to take its skills and experience to the world, writes John Brogden....

SMSF trustees making changes to their portfolio were more likely to have followed planning advice to seek better returns, while more than half of non-SMSF investors made ...

The findings of the Ripoll Inquiry have been broadly welcomed by the financial planning industry, but as Mike Taylor reports, they will ultimately be diluted by the findi...

The institute of actuaries has urged the separation of advice costs as part of a broader subdivision of superannuation fund investment and administration costs....

Commission rebate services may be perceived as competing with financial advisers, but they can actually help advisers place control over fees back into the hands of clien...

The big universities-based fund UniSuper has opted for an in-house approach to financial planning based on fee-for-service and salaried planners....

It is time for Industry Super Network's David Whiteley to put down the verbal cudgels and for his industry funds’ backers to cease their consequent expenditure of members...

The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen makes clear the Ripoll Inquiry will not be viewed by the Government in isolation, with much now depending on the findings...

The Parliamentary Joint Committee that has investigated aspects of the financial services industry over the past nine months has made 11 wide-ranging reform recommendatio...