Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...
Financial advisory firm, Wilsons, has appointed two former Commonwealth Bank high-net-worth advisors to its private wealth advisory team. ...
The latest research from Investment Trends reveals trust in financial planners has plumbed new lows following the Royal Commission....
The Federal Court has ordered Westpac to pay a $3.3 million penalty for its involvement in setting the BBSW in 2010. ...
Industry funds body, Industry Fund Services has admitted to the Royal Commission that it, too, had to deal with its planners receiving conflicted remuneration including g...
Westpac chairman, Lindsay Maxsted has admitted the big banking group did not sufficiently recognise the risks in its financial planning business....
With the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s education reforms looking inevitable, advisers need to turn their mind to where and how they will study once t...
The Commonwealth Bank has targeted late 2019 for completing the demerger of its wealth assets after reporting a solid September quarter....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made clear it believes product manufacturers should not seek to dictate to advisers under new financial product d...
Australian investors’ share market return expectations have turned negative for the first time since the global financial crisis, according to Investment Trends....
Self-managed superannuation funds should be excluded from the product design and distribution rules, according to the SMSF Association....
The big banks have seen a fall in aggregate cash profits for the 2018 full year, after they restructured and simplified their business models in an effort to regain trust...
The Association of Financial Advisers has declared to the Royal Commission that the debate over the removal of grandfathered commissions is now running out of control wit...
Westpac Banking Group has managed stay in the black despite heavy customer remediation costs, with BT Financial Group weathering much of the difficulty....
Despite a change in planners’ sentiment, Oksana Patron finds in the second part of Money Management's Rate the Raters survey that Lonsec remained their favourite research...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....