The regulator has confirmed scaled advice can be provided under best interests duties outlined in Future of Financial Advice changes....

Even the strongest of client relationships can be tested when returns are weak. As Tom Reddacliff explains, long-term relationships between financial planners and their c...

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

The Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has predicted that few of the financial services reforms implemented by the Gillard Government will be amended or repea...

The Federal Opposition has declared it will move quickly to repeal the worst elements of the Future of Financial Advice regime....

Australia's two financial services regulators have acknowledged the level of stress and uncertainty being experienced by financial services companies as a result of the G...

FSC chairman Peter Maher has raised concerns about the industry's ability to comply with FOFA and MySuper in the available deadlines when definitions are still not availa...

Mike Taylor writes that the reputational damage often suffered by the financial planning industry might be substantially reduced if regulators and the media were a little...

A Money Management roundtable has identified a key consequence of opt-in - orphan clients....

Some question the background of key ASIC personnel handling FOFA regulatory development....

Opposition spokesman on Financial Services Mathias Cormann has suggested the dealer group consolidation being driven by FOFA reforms is not entirely unintentional....

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....