Core elements of the financial planning industry are calling for greater regulatory scrutiny of the contractual arrangements underpinning the multimillion dollar group in...
Retail clients do not give too much thought to the remuneration model their financial planner operates on, but fee for service provides transparency and value, according ...
Amid moves to address perceived conflicts of interest in the financial planning industry, questions have been raised about BOLR arrangements. Meanwhile, recent comments b...
Government claims opt-in would cost around $11 per financial planning client is at best questionable and, at worst, entirely misleading, writes Mike Taylor....
Rice Warner will present a submission explaining how it arrived at the contentious $11 per client cost of opt-in that was quoted by Financial Services Minister Bill Short...
Financial planners have finally been given the details of the Government's FOFA reforms. In an editorial written prior to the release of the reform package Mike Taylor wa...
Lack of financial planner interest in reverse mortgages presents one of the major challenges for the equity release sector. John Thomas lists some of the things to consid...
The FPA has called for a ban on industry funds accessing MySuper and default fund balances to fund television advertising campaigns....
Claims by the financial planning industry that all industry participants, including research providers, should be liable for some client losses has been met with a mixed ...
The financial services industry has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Superannuation Guarantee and, as Mike Taylor reports, the industry funds have more to celebrate...
The Government's apparent favouritism of industry superannuation funds is attracting increased criticisms from the financial planning industry including, most notably, th...
Financial planners have already started to focus on costs as a result of the proposed Future of Financial Advice reforms package, which could significantly boost the appe...
If Australian financial planner sentiment is to follow the patterns of the past decade, the global markets meltdown experienced in the opening days of August is likely to...
Product manufacturers should be prepared to play a role in weeding out the bad apples who give the financial planning industry a bad name, according to the chief executiv...
A recent study has shown that advisers see their client relationship as the primary foundation of their value proposition. Fiona Mackenzie describes the importance of a ...
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,...