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...
Dealer group Premium has signed on three accounting firms looking to venture into the financial advice space....
Financial planners who act as gatekeepers for clients are working towards their retirement date having missed the next growth area of financial advice....
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...
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...
Fiducian urges its planners to differentiate themselves from bank planners....
ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....
AMP chief executive, Craig Meller says self-interested parties are seeking to dumb down advice to just product selection....
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....
The Australian Bankers’ Association has voiced its support for moves to boost the professional standards in the financial advice sector....
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...
Claims that the Government should tighten its legislation regulating the financial advice industry have been dismissed as “insultingly stupid”, by the Federal Treasurer, ...
Victims of the Trio Capital collapse are still waiting for compensation for the fraud, despite an election pledge by the Coalition Government. ...
A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....
Professional associations should take over setting CPD standards if adviser standards are to improve, SPAA argued. ...
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,...