As numerous studies and roundtables have failed to find a successful financial advice model, collaboration between stakeholders could be the solution, writes Neil Macdona...
Mike Taylor writes that with the few remaining grandfathered remuneration arrangements coming to an end, a different regime has already evolved with the ultimate cost bei...
NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg, has stated his belief the financial services industry had too much influence over Liberal Party policy and that the Coalition was wrong...
Advisers should not be tainted by media reports that they are using stamping fees as a remuneration loophole, according to the Association of Financial Advisers. ...
A West Australian adviser has told the Federal Treasury that industry funds have been allowed to hide behind intra-fund advice and to create an environment that favours o...
At the same time as it seeks to reshape and rebuild its advice business, AMP Limited has called on a Government panel to consider changes which would make it easier to ac...
The benefits of comprehensive financial advice significantly outweigh those delivered by intra-fund advice and this should be recognised within the Retirement Income Syst...
Amid concern and confusion around how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission yearly opt-in and fee disclosure will work, adviser groups are urging flexibili...
Mike Taylor writes that while the critics of asset-based fees paint them as being as inappropriate as commissions, the commercial evidence suggests their use fills an imp...
The Institute of Public Accountants has emerged at the head of a new push to reinstate the Accountants’ Exemption....
Advisers have been urged to be mindful of the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s move to impose 12-monthly opt-in and fee disclosure arrangements....
The degree of commercial pain being felt by financial planning dealer groups has been laid bare in the documentation surrounding the CountPlus acquisition of Count Financ...
Conflicted fees are once again a hot legal topic, with Suncorp being hit with a class action in the New South Wales Supreme Court over superannuation commissions paid to ...
Adviser Ratings, the firm that grew out of the Future of Financial Advice and the consumer movement, is now seeking to crowd-fund its growth initiatives....
Major fund manager, Platinum Asset Management has called on the Royal Commission to further scrutinise platform shelf-space fees and problematic relationships between pla...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...