At the recent Investment and Financial Services Association conference, Money Management conducted a round table in which inndustry leaders canvassed various issues facin...

The Association of Financial Advisers will use today's Ripoll Inquiry hearings to back Treasury warnings about unintended consequences flowing from changes to financial p...

Only a complete overhaul of the industry that involves banning commissions and creating a profession with distinct service providers will save the financial planning indu...

Product providers and financial advisers are going to be poles apart when it comes to the complexity of the service they provide: Stackpool....

The Parliamentary Joint Committee has been told that the absence of tax deductibility with respect to fee-for-service advice is creating a market distortion....

IFSA has called for full tax deductibility of financial advice at an inquiry hearing today into financial products and services before the Parliamentary Joint Committee o...

The Financial Services Reform Act has created an industry bogged down in paperwork and regulations, with the effect of driving advisers into the arms of product providers...

Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...

Two interesting and welcome events occurred in the financial planning industry last week – the Financial Planning Association (FPA) agreed with the Association of Financi...

Equity manager PM Capital has called for an end to payments from fund managers to financial planners, dealer groups and research houses, despite sourcing most of its $1.5...

The Industry Super Network has slammed the degree to which the banks and major institutions dominate financial planning and suggested commissions were a root cause of the...

ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....

QInvest submission argues that advisers are at cross-roads and that they cannot serve two masters....

The Ideas Centre will help AFA members to build, manage and protect not only the wealth of their clients but also the value of their own businesses....