Insurance claims handling should not be encumbered by the same obligations as financial advice because it would risk making it unaffordable to super fund members, accordi...
Two of the major banks may have exited their wealth businesses and two more may be on their way out, but Mike Taylor writes that they have astutely kept the sweetest mors...
Replacing insurance cover can be complicated and fraught with risk. Col Fullagar outlines steps advisers can take to navigate conversations with clients around this and e...
While making full use of member engagement data will involve the use of artificial intelligence, super funds need to remember that positive member advice offerings will s...
Fiducian Financial Services has added six new franchisees to its financial planning network, including a significant Wollongong planning business....
Advisers helping clients with estate planning may need to consider more than they bargained for, with funeral plots and burial rites often causing headaches when inadequa...
Technology can provide a helping hand for financial advice businesses adjusting to the post-Royal Commission industry landscape, Oksana Patron finds....
The advice industry can rally from the Royal Commission’s fall-out by uniting around positive stories, according to a Dow Jones executive who saw the US industry undergo ...
Copia Investment Partners has appointed Matt Roberts as its new distribution manager in its Sydney office....
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has released the legislative instrument underpinning the financial planner Code of Ethics....
As vital as business development is to the successful management of a financial planning practice, it often falls by the wayside. Ray McHale outlines how to complete a br...
The Royal Commission has laid groundwork to improve the financial services sector and build a more trusted industry, according to the SMSF Association....
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has made some minor concessions around the financial adviser exam....
A former Adelaide financial adviser has pleaded guilty to 29 dishonesty offences committed when he was a planner, after ASIC found that he stole around $4.88 million from...
The planning industry faces an obstacle in ensuring consumers are aware that advisers are improving their education standards, if it wants to see the possible improvement...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...