The Institute of Actuaries has suggested that planners be required to give clients a mandatory stress test to ensure they are aware of their risk exposures....

A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...

A submission by Professional Investment Services to a parliamentary inquiry has pointed to the use of investment platforms as one way of mitigating potential conflicts of...

Submission to the joint parliamentary inquiry claims the buyer of last resort policy is biased towards product providers....

In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....

More financial planners than ever work under a dealer group model – and groups that have experienced a dip in planner numbers plan to reverse that trend....

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are to join together to push regulatory reform of the financial services industry....

While trustees will have relief from FSR, clients can still sue for negligent advice....

Failure of high profile companies testing guidelines to the limit; questions as to whether PI insurers will continue to provide insurance to planners....

Dealer group considers two further acquisitions, one of which would see the group double in size....

Fees will be decided by industry competition, up to regulator to promote competition....

Squabbling on the part of groups of financial planners is serving to undermine the broader interests of the financial planning industry, according to the chief executive ...

Longstanding projections that an ageing demographic would result in many financial advisers leaving the industry in droves are premature, according to Chris Wrightson, di...