Most financial planning principals have felt the need to reduce costs within their businesses, according to a survey conducted by Money Management....
Former Millennium3 Financial Services executive director of advice and advocacy Sean Graham has joined Mills Oakley Lawyers' financial services practice....
Rubik Financial managing director Wayne Wilson says the fourth version of COIN is ready for the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....
GBST has released a new wealth management platform that it said is market ready for incoming Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) requirements....
The ATO has been urged to treat the provision of advice within super equally across types of funds....
There is some concern in the industry about the language used by ASIC in its consultation papers on the delivery of financial advice....
Participants of a Money Management roundtable agree there are too many part-time financial planners living off large books of trailing commissions....
Melbourne-based financial planning business FMD Financial has acquired two advisory firms - Investwell Financial Planning and Financial Lifestyle Managers....
Learning from the lessons of similar reform in the United Kingdom, Australian financial advisers need to ensure adequate standards and controls are in place ahead of the ...
The approach ASIC has signaled it will adopt to scaled advice and the best interests duty is a welcome development for financial planning industry....
John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....
The Financial Planning Association has upgraded its consumer-facing website in a move it says is designed to help Australians make informed financial decisions....
The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....
Despite FOFA reforms now being imminent, there are several regrettable reasons many businesses are using to delay addressing the changes, according to a paper from PwC an...
Promoting the value of advice and improving consumer confidence are some of the main goals of this year's Financial Planning Week, according to FPA chief Mark Rantall....
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,...