Major consultancy, KPMG, has urged that superannuation funds providing CIPRs be full licensed to provide financial advice....

Andrew Kennedy has been confirmed as chief executive of Total Financial Solutions Australia, moving up from his acting CEO role....

While the demand and need for financial advice is growing, advisers still feel that there are barriers to client acquisition and that the advice environment is challengin...

The low number of practices with a succession plan, combined with an ageing financial advice industry, can mean principals will be forced to sell businesses at a much low...

Hope William-Smith looks at how changing family structures and the ageing population have required advisers to upgrade their estate planning expertise and how they are em...

Marcus Evans looks at super changes and what advisers need to know when dealing with SMSFs....

The Future of Financial Advice ban on conflicted remuneration should be expanded to encompass the salaries of bank executives, according to the Finance Sector Union....

What is the difference between a ‘rebate’ and a ‘commission’ and is a different standard being applied to the ‘risk sharing rebates’ paid to industry funds by insurers?...

Compliance automation was disrupting the comprehensive advice model and was replacing it with single piece advice as clients demanded more efficiency and innovation....

New research from MLC has confirmed a ready market for financial advice with fewer than three-in-10 Australians receiving advice but high levels of satisfaction among tho...

Consumer group Choice wants all grandfathered commission arrangements to end and for advisers to be required to declare their status – independent or aligned....

Super funds were failing to utilise data to integrate their online advice offering with human financial advice services to engage more members. ...

The lack of external finance for innovative firms with high commercial potential is a lost opportunity to the economy, IPA believes....

Independent financial advisers may not have been exposed to the various elements of risk management and they therefore could inadvertently neglect them to the detriment o...