FINANCIAL SERVICES REFORM

Financial planning

Bendigo-based financial planner George Flack has risen above a range of other high profile candidates to win the Money Management Financial Planner of the Year award for ...

Life/Risk

Commission disclosure under Financial Services Reform is contributing to Australia’s chronic underinsurance problem rather than alleviating it and driving churning betwee...

Financial planning

The Government’s proposed fee disclosure regulations have been defeated in the Senate, with the Australian Labor Party’s motion to disallow the draft rules passed with th...

Accounting

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have moved to head off a further bid by accountants to get a larger...

Financial planning

AXA Australia is to conduct a re-run over coming months of Project Discovery - a scheme launched last year where the group bought clients from established financial plann...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signalled it will continue with its push to clean up the profession and raise the standard of advice provided by financial pl...

Financial planning

The average Statement of Advice prepared by financial planners is full of jargon and unnecessary information, but lacking in key disclosure elements, an investigation by ...

Financial planning

Inadequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance is proving a major compliance hurdle for financial planning dealer groups, the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Financial planning

Ten financial services professionals were jailed, 64 advisers were banned - 19 of them permanently - and 51 civil proceedings were taken against 118 people or companies, ...

Financial planning

Without a doubt, the introduction of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) on March 11 was a watershed for the industry....

Financial planning

The ‘product flog’ is hampering attempts at professionalism by financial planners. The big institutions need to ease the sales pressure on advisers, writes Ray Griffin....

Financial planning

Financial planners have taken a lot of criticism recently from some who say we are not moving quickly enough to embrace change....

Financial planning

Promina-owned dealer groups Cameron Walshe and Guardian Financial Planning are bracing themselves for possible adviser departures after the introduction of a new terms of...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...

Financial planning

Proving that advice is given in the best interests of clients is more critical than ever if financial planners want to avoid a day in court, writes Paul Resnik....

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