It is often the commissions versus fees issue that overwhelms discussions about the appropriateness of the title 'profession' when applied to financial advice. ...

Dealer group Millennium3 points to the role of accountants in giving bad advice relating to recent corporate collapses....

Regulators must infuse personal integrity into provision of financial advice....

What becomes relevant information for financial advice is being influenced by data collector expertise....

Submission to the joint parliamentary inquiry claims the buyer of last resort policy is biased towards product providers....

The VOA awards are designed to promote and define the value of professional advice....

Plan B suggests the financial services industry may need two sets of standards....

Dispensations granted to superannuation funds with respect to intra-fund advice are what many had hoped for but they carry the risk of reputational damage if things go wr...

A Sydney financial planner who has worked with former clients of Storm Financial in recent months has pointed to an aggressive sales culture within the failed group, incl...

A dispute resolution process between Storm clients and the Commonwealth Bank has been put in place in order to avoid a lengthy litigation process....

The degree to which superannuation funds comply with the regulatory constraints surrounding the new intra-fund advice regime will rely on how closely they are watched by ...

Guardian Financial Planning head Steve Browning claims intra-fund advice should be termed 'informed guidance' rather than 'advice'....

AMP chief executive Craig Dunn used the words 'process-driven' and 'industrialised' to describe the way planning businesses will need to evolve, while also flagging a new...

The push to reduce super fees to an average of 1 per cent and create fee transparency will create demand pressure on costs....