Licensing of people who provide advice on financial services products is not a straight forward subject. Admittedly, the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) bought toget...

Western Australia has been operating a mortgage broker licensing system for more than 10 years, and is the only state that has a licensing system for brokers, although th...

Colonial First State, Commsec, Macquarie and Leveraged Equities were the big winners in a margin loan market that showed no signs of cooling off last year....

The Institute of Chartered Accountants has called for financial planners to move to a fee-for-service model, stating that commission payments inherently result in conflic...

Some of Australia’s biggest dealer groups have given the Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts principles the thumbs up, but not all expect the initiative to mar...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has won a rare accolade from a major superannuation fund, with Tasmanian-based Tasplan praising the efforts of the FPA to improve...

The FPA will release the final version of its principles to manage conflicts of interest on the day before chief executive Kerrie Kelly leaves her post....

Law firm Slater and Gordon will take legal action against between 75 and 100 financial planners on behalf of 2,000 investors who lost millions of dollars in schemes assoc...

The Financial Planning Association has confirmed that it is investigating six complaints about its members in relation to the failed Westpoint group....

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Law firm Slater and Gordon has confirmed that it will launch its class action against financial planners whose clients were exposed to failed Westpoint investments as soo...

A report into the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) commissioned by major accountancy body CPA Australia has suggested that advice provided by real estate agents and p...

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...

The desire to spend now, repay later, has never been stronger in the Australian psyche. Credit card balances have never been higher and other forms of credit are at equal...