Concerns are being raised over alleged rorting of industry superannuation funds, following comments attributed to former NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa....
ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, confirms planners and SMSFs are on ASIC’s radar over the next 12 months....
Current market conditions will allow financial planners to sell their businesses at high prices even if not full transitioned to a fee for service model....
Accountants are more qualified to give financial advice than planners, largely due to their working knowledge of SMSFs, a small business owner believes....
Financial planners should ask clients ‘how much is enough?’ and directing their thinking toward philanthropy according to a long-serving adviser....
Ethics classes for financial planners should be fundamental to the new education standards, with self-regulation a near impossible benchmark for the profession, two indus...
Financial institutions should be prohibited from providing any form of adviser education to avoid perpetuating current business models which have promoted sales over advi...
Major insurer TAL claims clients care more about price than whether planners are aligned or non-aligned....
People’s Choice Credit Union will develop a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) offering and enhance its current superannuation product range in an effort to expand i...
The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....
While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...
The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...
Australian financial planners use less sophisticated software than US and UK counterparts and have focused on FOFA compliance instead of business efficiency....
Financial planners are sourcing almost a third of their revenue from risk advice and showing little hesitation when it comes to switching insurers for the best deal....
The Commonwealth Bank has used its second FSI submission to back a US-style approach to the implementation of a natioanl register of financial planners....
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,...