The FPA and the Association AFA are confident that the industry has the ear of Treasury as the consultation around the Future of Financial Advice reforms has resumed....
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reinforced its support for small licensees and practices by launching the Small Licensee and Practice Principal Conference...
While new research suggests more SMSF trustees are using advisers, it also confirms their own self-belief....
Estate planning has always been the missing piece in the financial advice puzzle. According to popular belief, financial planners have always struggled over where to plac...
MLC has expanded its technical team and built up support services for financial advisers, with the appointment of Gemma Dale, Peter Hogan and Martin Breckon to the team....
The Financial Services Council has urged the industry to adopt a common agenda to deal with the new dynamic in Canberra....
A Melbourne law firm has assisted financial planners in postponing a meeting of Willmott Forests grower investors....
ING Investment Management is strengthening its business development and distributions teams now that it is able to build direct relationships with advisers....
Securitor is looking to acquire advice practices that are shifting towards a fee for advice structure, regardless of their business model or current remuneration structur...
Charter Hall Direct Property has appointed former Wallaby Brendan Cannon as its key account manager for Western Australia and Queensland....
Half of advisers are incorrectly classifying term deposits as cash, according to PIMCO research....
AFS Group has signed an agreement to use Praemium’s SMARTwrap platform....
The dealer group has added 15 new offices in the past financial year, according to managing director Darren Steinhardt....
An increasing number of investors are not getting enough information and advice on self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) and are suffering as a result, according to W...
The Association of Financial Advisers is pushing ahead with a lobby group aimed at defining the ‘nuances’ of proposed regulatory reforms to the advice industr...
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,...