FINANCIAL PLANNING

Life/Risk

Col Fullagar points to push towards advice-based approach to life/risk via a truly wholesale risk insurance premium....

Financial planning

A global study has found that 44 per cent of consumers still rely on family and friends for financial advice....

Superannuation

Super fund executives have been told good financial advice trumps investment management in delivering adequate retirement incomes....

Financial planning

While 22 per cent of Australians believe they do not need a financial planner, 23 per cent are kept up at night by their finance, according to a survey....

Financial planning

There is growing interest among financial advisers to implement social media strategies into their businesses to connect with clients....

Life/Risk

Advisers’ uptake of a program aimed at supporting them to transition from up-front commissions to a hybrid system reflects their willingness to change, a life insurer bel...

Editorial

While 2015 threw up its share of challenges for financial planners and the broader financial planning industry, it also confirmed that planners could speak with one voice...

Policy & Regulation

Mike Taylor reflects that 2015 was a year of policy challenges for the financial services industry, many of which will continue into 2016....

Financial planning

The FPA announces policy chief Dante De Gori as the successor to Mark Rantall as CEO....

Financial planning

CBA launches a program to educate its employed financial planners on women’s unique financial needs, as well as promote financial planning as a profession for women. ...

Financial planning

Canadian financial planners perceive Australia’s removal of commissions as a fail which has created an advice gap....

Financial planning

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, sees opportunities for Australian planners in an increasingly affluent but ageing China....

Financial planning

National Australia Bank’s premium wealth brand, JBWere makes three key appointments, including general manager, advice....

Financial planning

The Federal Government intends reconstituting the Financial Sector Advisory Council but will planners get a voice?...

Financial planning

Macquarie wants planning and accounting firms to provide benchmarks across fees, remuneration structures and retention strategies....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 6 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 3 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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