The AFA will release its Financial Advice Competency Framework at its conference this week, in which it outlines the skills and attributes required by advisers....
The lift in education standards across the financial services industry has created a short supply in financial adviser and paraplanner candidates, according to Hays....
ASIC has released its Cost Recovery Implementation Statement outlining its estimated regulatory costs in 2017/18 as part of the industry funding model. ...
The SMSF Association has echoed the Association of Financial Advisers in warning the Government about the increased costs being imposed on planners via the establishment ...
FOS has received a record number of disputes in the 2016/17 year, driven mainly by general insurance which made up 38 per cent of the increase....
The quality of a financial planner’s client service can be identified in their fees charged and client retention, Mentor Education believes....
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has signalled its intention to make financial capability a focus point for World Financial Planning Day....
Online stockbroker OpenMarkets Australia has paid a $200,000 infringement notice penalty to the Markets Disciplinary Panel....
Hub24 head of marketing and distribution will leave the business after nearly half a decade....
Paul Harding-Davis looks at the five retirement transition phases now that he is approaching the ‘sunset’ of his life....
The Government’s proposed new Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been dismissed as a politically-motivated ‘juggernaut Frankenstein’ aimed at deflecting the ne...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it has emerged a winner with greater powers and more discretion with respect to Australia’s financial se...
Most Australians trusted their financial adviser over their financial institutions, while there was disconnect between their risk appetite and expected returns....
A study by global investment firm Dimensional has found investors rank peace of mind as the best benefit to having a financial adviser....
SAI Global’s inaugural Consumer Trust Index has found financial services to be amongst the least trusted industries globally....
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....