Given a family background in financial advice and a well-recognised commitment to the industry, it is hardly surprising that well-known Sydney planner, Claire Mackay, has...
A Melbourne para-planner, William Vuong, has been named the inaugural Money Management/Fiducian Paraplanner of the Year. ...
The myth of institutional domination has been exposed as false with ASIC data revealing they control less than 50 per cent of advisers....
Perpetual-owned business advisory and accounting provider Fordham has announced it is expanding in Sydney due to market demand....
Financial advice for retirees needs to improve significantly, funds must boost member engagement, and a CIPR approach will not provide tailored products to individuals. ...
The CFA Institute urges an oath-based approach as it tells Treasury you can’t regulate against bad ethics....
Life insurer AIA Australia has announced a number of enhancements to its Priority Protection product, including a new option specifically targeted at business owners....
Specialist investment administration provider HUB24 and licensee, GPS Wealth, announced this week they had launched a new white label platform....
APRA reveals emerging terms and conditions changes which are likely to curb the attractiveness of superannuation group life for planning clients. ...
Expat UK clients of Australian planners may expose them to legal action stemming from changes to UK pension laws which could result in clients being hit with a 55 per cen...
Bad publicity and negative press coverage of the financial planning industry may be deterring businesses from seeking financial advice....
Consumers want advisers to be compliant but prefer advice focused on them and not on keeping the adviser out of trouble according to Centrepoint Alliance head, John de Zw...
Industry fund Cbus acknowledges it stemmed serious high balance member leakage to SMSFs via its FPA planning referrral deal....
A cut to the company tax rate and a deduction for items purchased under $20,000, are big Budget wins for the financial advice sector, experts believe....
Smaller financial planning practices stand to gain the benefit of small business tax changes include immediate tax deductibility....
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....