The Financial Services Council has declared it will support a move to level commissions and fee for service if the Life Insurance Framework fails to meet its objectives....
The use of poor data means the Federal Government may have seriously under-estimated the impact of the Federal Budget on SMSFs....
Selections will be critical to the success or otherwise of the Professional Standards Body covering the financial planning industry....
Advisers have been warned that the advice they provide to clients will need to be hedged on the basis of which party ultimately wins the 2 July poll....
Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft, places planning and life insurance front and centre of regulator’s attention following increased...
Financial planners have been told they need to proactively prepare their clients against the impacts of ageing and cognitive decline – a risk that they cannot afford not ...
The Financial Planning Association has appointed former College of Law staffer, Shaun Weston-Cole, as its new head of education....
Superannuation will lose its status as an end-of-year tax planning strategy and alter the remuneration dynamics for planners....
A survey of financial planners has revealed an overwhelmingly negative response to the Federal Budget changes....
Dealer groups have good reason to be cautious and to ensure planners are appropriately qualified to give advice around leverage and margin lending, a Money Management rou...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has urged action on implementing a mechanism capable of rationalising legacy life products....
Lowering the superannuation concessional contribution caps to $20,000 will be self-defeating for the Government, according to the Financil Services Council....
Fiducian has expanded its financial planning footprint via Perth acquisitions, and has increased its FUA in Fiducian Financial Services to $1.8 billion....
Industry Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley claims if banks are serious about consumer best interests they will abandon grandfathered commissions....
NAB Wealth’s Andrew Hagger takes another step up with the bank to chair JBWere....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...