The FPA’s Ask an Expert initiative received more than 90 requests this year, which points to a stronger-than-ever need for financial advice, the association says....
Australia’s growing “class action mentality” and the emergence of litigation funders have created fertile ground for claims against participants in the financial services...
The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....
The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....
ASIC to keep watching brief for 18 months over Anne Street Partners Financial Services....
With Parliament prorogued and the advice reform agenda incomplete, many in the financial services industry are left wondering ‘what now?’, writes Cecilia Storniolo....
Seaview Consulting predicts financial planning practice values will remain in decline with supply outstripping demand....
ETFs have moved onto a level playing field with actively managed investment products as a result of the FOFA reforms — but the onus is still on ETFs for people to invest ...
Planning acquisitions and platform restructure set scene for future performance....
Following calls by the FPA for industry to work together in raising awareness around the benefits of financial advice, both ASIC and the FOS have given their support to F...
Industry Super Network CEO David Whiteley has made an appeal to financial advisers to give FOFA a chance to work before rushing to have the reforms amended. ...
If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...
Two businesses specialising in providing support to small licensees said they were experiencing significant growth due to dealer group dissatisfaction and FOFA. ...
The FPA has kicked off its financial planning week, which will allow consumers to get free financial advice from its members....
A major law firm has warned Australian consumers against taking advice from bank financial planners....
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,...