Questions are being raised over financial advisers’ focus on traditional products, with a survey showing more than half of respondents viewed specialist risk as a priorit...

FPA aims to grow members and boost consumer engagement with NAB Wealth executive hire....

A Budget user-pays approach to financial services regulation could hit licensee and other planning costs....

Despite the efforts of licensees to promote succession planning, only a fifth of financial planners have a comprehensive roadmap in place, a survey has revealed. ...

Financial services is one of last professions to outsource routine procedures to improve productivity....

A roundtable has agreed that Australia needs a Government-sanctioned retirement incomes adequacy index and a shift from lump sums to income streams....

AMP chief executive Craig Meller has told shareholders the company is re-engineering its insurance business, believing recent customer behaviour may be here to stay....

NAB has reported a solid half-year, with its new NAB Wealth team being cited as gaining traction....

Fiducian spends $1.31 million on purchase of client base....

While many Australians will resent a Federal Budget which includes a lifting of the pension age to 70, such a move is likely to generate plenty of business and new produc...

Over the past 12 months the global equities sector has seen the highest number of new product entrants since before the onset of the global financial crisis....

With the increased scrutiny of self-managed super funds (SMSF) from the regulator, the soon-to-be-introduced penalty regime for trustees and the increasing diligence of S...

As Commonwealth FP again finds itself in the media spotlight, the FPA has defended the manner in which it has handled members who broke bad....

FPA honours ‘first lady of financial planning’, Gwen Fletcher, by giving her name to a CFP-related award...