FOS personnel dominate CommInsure’s Claims Review Panel while ASIC is proving integral to the appointment of an independent expert to review denied claims....
Industry funds body, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) is arguing that TTR arrangements should be counted as retirement income....
Will the major institutions offering both both product and advice remain in wealth management in the face of new technology and lack-lustre balance sheets?...
Former Cooper Review chairman and Challenger executive, Jeremy Cooper says retirees are being let down by retirement calculators utilising long-term average returns....
Money Management and Financial Express launch new investment resource for planners and self-directed investors - the Money Management Investment Centre....
The major banks, AMP and IOOF have been singled out as licensees for accountants to avoid if they have an eye to issues such as succession planning....
Digital disruption will compel accountants away from ‘hackwork” and towards financial planning, according to CPA, Greg Holman....
The FPA has launched a national campaign backing the value of the Certified Financial Planning designation. ...
A tribunal decision has revealed that superannuation fund members are still waiting for money from illiquid super fund investments seven years after the GFC....
Retirement planning is making up a greater proportion of planners’ workload and they are looking for platform tools to make life easier....
Financial Services group, ClearView has appointed co-founder of Matrix Planning Solutions, Allison Dummett, to the newly-created role of head of strategic advice....
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman, Wayne Byres says recent events have drawn the regulator's attention to corporate culture in the life/risk sector....
Failed agribusiness MIS are a result of insufficient regulation governing the meaning of ‘general advice’, the FPA believes....
BT Financial Group has told advisers there can be merit in advising clients out of group and into individual retail life utilising partial rollovers....
Life insurers are not only facing renewed political and regulatory scrutiny, they are facing mixed signals from the life/risk market....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...