As Rhonda Virtue writes, it is essential that members are educated about the impact of choice on insurance....
Paul Resnik goes in search of some of the answers to the problems currently facing the financial planning profession....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will seek indirect influence in regulating real estate ‘get-rich-quick’ schemes when it releases findings from an ind...
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has appointed Jillian Segal, former commissioner and deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as a...
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has backed away from comments he made two weeks ago in which he said he hoped financial planners would one day become superfl...
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has criticised the financial planning industry, labelling it one of the significant weaknesses in Australia’s superannuation ...
The industry is full of elephants, says Rob Keavney, but the elephants’ days are numbered....
Recent legislation is set to revamp the South African financial planning industry. Craig Phillips reports....
As the call for professional standards echoes around Asia, various industry bodies are lining up for a piece of the action. Ben Abbott reports....
LARGE financial planning groups must reconsider the structure and culture of their businesses to avoid losing clients to more adaptable and individually focused smaller i...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) today launched its Professional Partners initiative in a bid to raise public confidence levels in the industry, and has appointed...
Negotiations between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Zurich London over setting up the association’s own in-house professional indemnity (PI) insurance schem...
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has released a position paper slamming the industry over conflicts of interest and calling for greater l...
The complexity of financial planning has become a burden, however, as Prue Moodie writes, one suggestion may provide the answer, though it may not be warmly received....
Average returns are only for average people and as Jacinda Green argues, there are better ways for planners to examine the risk/return relationship in a client’s portfoli...
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,...