Below are the full results of Money Management’s exclusive poll on attitudes to the soft dollar code released by the Financial Planning Association and the Investment and...

Tim Farrelly uncovers the outlook for Australian equities over the next decade....

Controversy over soft dollar payments and conflicts of interest are threatening the financial planning industry. Money Management invited some of the industry’s leaders t...

Baby boomers have always known how to go with the flow. And now their unique history, needs and desires are shaping how they approach retirement. Liam Egan reports....

The sheer size of the baby boomer generation presents a retirement planning opportunity too good for financial advisers to miss. But the fact that they also think differe...

AXA Australia is to conduct a re-run over coming months of Project Discovery - a scheme launched last year where the group bought clients from established financial plann...

Financial planners who provide direct equity advice have failed in their bid to gain an exemption from having to provide a Statement of Advice (SOA) in time-critical situ...

Professional indemnity (PI) costs for some financial planners could plummet by as much as 25 per cent after the QBE insurance group announced significant cuts to its rate...

Self funded retirees could see their savings targeted by future Federal Governments as the nation struggles to raise sufficient tax revenue from traditional sources, a le...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signalled it will continue with its push to clean up the profession and raise the standard of advice provided by financial pl...

The average Statement of Advice prepared by financial planners is full of jargon and unnecessary information, but lacking in key disclosure elements, an investigation by ...

Advisers who are concerned about potential conflicts of interests in their businesses will have access to a new resource, thanks to the launch of a new course by a financ...

Independent dealer group Count Financial has announced it will scrap an incentive program that rewards its planners for placing funds into preferred platforms, even thoug...

Australia’s largest financial planning dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has acknowledged the ongoing popularity of industry superannuation funds by adding ten of the...