Financial planners are earning even bigger salaries, but is the bubble about to burst? Lisa Bowman reports....
The consensus of thought on the current crisis of adviser credibility in financial planning seems to be “sit tight and ride out the storm”. But is it enough? Keith Peel r...
Financial planners should have to earn the right to the exclusive use of the term ‘financial planner’ according to shadow finance minister Senator Stephen Conroy....
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has backed away from comments he made two weeks ago in which he said he hoped financial planners would one day become superfl...
International rating and investment data group Standard & Poor’s (S&P) today formally launched Australian Fund Management Ratings - a rating and research tool aimed at fi...
Equities have been a stable of portfolios for investors for many years, but maybe it’s time to stay out of equities argues Tom Collins....
If we thought we had problems in Australia, they pale in comparison to those besetting the financial planning industry in Canada. Julie Bennett and Lucie Beaman report....
AMP Financial Planning has announced a $5 million package to support its financial planners, who are said to be suffering due to a slated split between AMP’s Australian a...
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has criticised the financial planning industry, labelling it one of the significant weaknesses in Australia’s superannuation ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will find it impossible to solve its professional indemnity (PI) insurance woes, according to a leading insurance broking house a...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released details of how it will administer conduct and disclosure requirements for financial planners unde...
Listed financial planning company Snowball Group has appointed Trent Capital managing director Andrew Brown as a non-executive director of the company, and given Trent, a...
The Financial Service Reform Act will not change community perceptions of financial planners nor will it stop people from being dishonest according to International CFP C...
Fiducian Financial Services will soon launch a financial planning software package, FORCeFP, which will write financial plans meeting all FSRA requirements....
Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...
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,...