Market uncertainty and declining investor sentiment has created gloom amongst many Australian financial planners....
Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund governance changes carry with them the risk of contagion from importing finance sector norms....
Platform provider netwealth has launched a private label managed account offering with GPS Wealth....
Financial advisers have been blamed alongside lawyers for pushing the multitude of claims which placed pressure on TPD products within superannuation funds....
Non-aligned advisers make up one in every two planners, according to the 2015 Top 100 research conducted by Money Management....
Robo-advice models in their current form don’t consider existing investments of investors, both inside and outside super, which could lead to negative outcomes....
Macquarie has completed its Enforceable Undertaking with ASIC but its compliance bill has quadrupled to $413 million and is forecast to continue rising....
Robo-advice provider to conduct pilot with salaried advisers within large, non-aligned advice provider Centrepoint Alliance....
The FPA has rejected claims by the AIOFP that its members were not consulted and that institutions shaped its proposal on life insurance commission changes....
Perpetual Private has recruited long-serving ipac securities technical services head, Colin Lewis, as Head of Strategic Advice....
Robo advice specialist, Ignition Wealth, has signed an agreement with the Retirement Planning Association of Australasia....
The Association of Financial Advisers wants lapses which are beyond the control of advisers to be exempted from the three-year claw-back provisions....
New Investment Trends research reveals planners have never enjoyed greater levels of platform choice and are opting to look beyond the dominant BT Wrap, Colonial FirstCho...
A class action against Sandhurst Trustees, related to its oversight of Wickham Securities, will reach the courts with a first hearing date set for late July....
Enrolments into the AFA Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner designation has hit 500 since late 2013 when the curriculum was relaunched with Kaplan. ...
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....