Financial planning job numbers jumped 21 per cent in January 2011 compared to January 2010, while they were notably up from seasonal lows in December, according to eJobs ...
The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...
As the Government implements its financial services reforms throughout 2011 and beyond, it can either choose to do things the 'hard way'; or the ';easy way', writes Mike ...
The key lobby groups making up the financial services industry are hoping to see the first draft of the legislation emanating from the Government’s Future of Financ...
Ray Griffin looks at the recent changes made by the Financial Planning Association and considers the impact they will have on the financial planning community in Australi...
The financial planning industry has ended 2010 amid just as much uncertainty as the beginning of the year, writes Mike Taylor....
As the debate surrounding tertiary education for financial planners moves from whether it should be compulsory to what degree should count, Ashleigh McIntyre writes that ...
Richard Klipin takes a look at 2010 and the impact it has had on the financial planning industry....
Things are looking good for financial planners and paraplanners in terms of their job prospects for the first quarter of 2011 with demand for these positions expected to ...
The University of New England has signed an articulation agreement with RG 146 training provider, Mentor Education Group, allowing Mentor graduates to knock up to 42 per ...
The Industry Super Network has produced a new document reinforcing its approach on annual opt-ins and an expansion of intra-fund advice....
ANZIIF warns that lifting the bar on financial planning qualifications may be an overreaction to having set it too low....
Financial planners will be closely watching the discussion and debate surrounding the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....
A joint move by ASIC and APRA to suspend Trio Capital (formerly Astarra Capital) as trustee of four superannuation funds and a pooled super trust generated significant co...
As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...
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,...