Industry Super Australia is claiming the interests of the big banks have been put ahead of those of consumers under the ATO’s proposed approach to employee selection of s...
Utilising platform, planner and industry funds distribution channels, Challenger Limited has recorded a 21 per cent increase in full-year profit on the back of record ann...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed shelf space fees charged by advice licensees to life insurers mostly remain legal, for now....
IRESS has today announced that financial advice and insurance group, ClearView has selected XPLAN Prime as its solution....
Former FPA chief professionalism officer, Deen Sanders has been named as the inaugural head of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority....
Research from Homesafe Solutions showed many Australians over 60 have been encouraged to release the equity in their home to meet their financial needs....
Almost half of all Australians who invested in property intended to keep it for more than a decade, according to Mortgage House....
Many financial advisers are already using better statements of advice than the sample SOA being proposed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, accordin...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has laid bare the reality that professional indemnity insurance doesn’t adequately protect the interests of consumers...
The financial planning industry is already a profession and it does not need the community to accept it for it to be a profession, according to Fiducian’s Indy Singh. ...
By automating a lot of processes that go into generating SOAs, planners can focus on achieving their client’s personal goals through advice, AdviserLogic believes....
A former NAB financial adviser has appeared in court after ASIC brought two charges against him that he forged financial planning documents....
Delegates to Money Management’s Fintech Platforms and Wraps Conference have nominated restoring trust in financial planners as an industry priority....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has placed the platform industry on notice around the new standards of fee transparency it will be enforcing....
The manner in which the Future of Financial Advice changes crimped the revenue streams of the major licensees has been confirmed as helping drive the rise of managed acco...
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....