Superannuation reform could be as far off as it has always been, despite this month’s budget announcements. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
The Federal Government is gearing up to act in the key areas of professional indemnity insurance and the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) accord...
The key to future financial planning groups will be selling the relationship, not what platforms the dealer group is using, says Strategic Consulting and Training managin...
LACHLAN GILBERT examines how the recent court case against stockbrokers Hartley Poynton may have enormous implications for financial planners....
Practice management can mean the difference between having an efficient or sloppy planning business. KATE KACHOR reports on what the industry considers the best and worst...
Financial planning industries around the world are facing unique challenges. KATE KACHOR reports on how the Japanese, US and UK financial planning industries are respondi...
Recently on a flight, I found myself sitting next to a couple also on their way back home to Airlie Beach, near Mackay. Striking up a conversation, I found they had moved...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...
The former chair of the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) Canberra chapter has been jailed for up to six years for stealing funds from his clients in a failed attemp...
Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...
The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....
The financial planning industry has been called on to play its part in the international fight against terrorism....
The Financial Planning Association has partially reversed its decision requiring planners who receive training with other education providers to sit a challenge test, as ...
Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...
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,...