The Institute of Public Accountants is urging members to change their business models as concerns grow that ASIC may be facing an accountants licensing bottleneck....

Planners need to take a consistent approach to life insurance recommendations, according to FPA general manager, policy and conduct, Dante De Gori....

Fee for service can help clients maintain cover, according to Wealth Elements Dean van Zyl....

Financial planners have a key role in educating consumers that life cover provided in super may not be enough....

New APRA data has revealed that it is retail funds which are lagging on transferring accrued default super balances to MySuper products....

A new e-book analysing mistakes within SOAs identifies failings around identifying what is really in a client’s best interests....

Rice Warner predicts 60 per cent will become the ultimate LIF default and that other major banks may emulate NAB in exiting life insurance manufacturing....

Specialist advice and legal document provider, Topdocs, has unveiled a new registration tool to help advisers streamline applications when processing self-managed super f...

The Government has moved to make the major life insurers more clearly define lapses and therefore what is and is not churn....

ClearView chief executive, Simon Swanson, calls on Government to follow through on making all vertically integrated financial firms include all APRA-regulated insurers on...

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft has used the regulator’s annual report to reinforce its continuing focus on advice from large, vertically-integrated institutions....

Westpac turns in solid result but partial sale of BTIM contributes to softer wealth result....

BT Financial Group, Brad Cooper looks beyond once-offs towards Panorama and Adviser View....

Capstone Financial Planning is now providing “authorisation solutions” to accountants as the financial planning landscape continues to shift....