FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

A raft of legislative and regulatory change in the financial planning sector has essentially made long-time advisers feel like new entrants to the profession, according t...

image
Financial planning

Dealer group Premium has signed on three accounting firms looking to venture into the financial advice space....

image
Financial planning

Financial planners who act as gatekeepers for clients are working towards their retirement date having missed the next growth area of financial advice....

image
Financial planning

Financial advisers are among the most likely professionals to be eradicated by technology or “robo-advice” – a prognosis that has drawn both disbelief and opportunism fro...

image
Financial planning

MFAA claims mortgage brokers have not been through any major scandals as a result of lower levels of risk and the application of higher professional standards...

image
Financial planning

Fiducian urges its planners to differentiate themselves from bank planners....

image
Financial planning

ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....

image
Financial planning

AMP chief executive, Craig Meller says self-interested parties are seeking to dumb down advice to just product selection....

image
Policy & Regulation

AMP chief exeuctive, Craig Meller says financial services reform has cost his company hundreds of millions of dollars and should be given time to work....

image
Policy & Regulation

The Australian Bankers’ Association has voiced its support for moves to boost the professional standards in the financial advice sector....

image
Editorial

Restoring confidence in the financial advice profession has become a catch cry for institutions recently, but the reality of the proposal is still a way off, Amelia Const...

image
Policy & Regulation

Claims that the Government should tighten its legislation regulating the financial advice industry have been dismissed as “insultingly stupid”, by the Federal Treasurer, ...

image
Financial planning

Victims of the Trio Capital collapse are still waiting for compensation for the fraud, despite an election pledge by the Coalition Government. ...

image
Financial planning

A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....

image
Superannuation

Professional associations should take over setting CPD standards if adviser standards are to improve, SPAA argued. ...

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

4 days 16 hours ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 week 1 day ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks 6 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

3 weeks 1 day ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

1 week ago

Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

6 days 23 hours ago