With major legislative change set to occur, the role software, technology and new media are playing in financial planning today is unprecedented....
AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....
A consulting firm predicts many financial planning practices and dealer groups will fail to get FOFA-ready....
Insurance brokers have told Money Management Vero Insurance representatives have alerted them to a price hike of up to 50 per cent to Vero's professional indemnity insura...
ASIC has monitored more than 3,300 providers of financial advice over the past year, dedicating 29 staffers to the surveillance....
Following Vow Financial Wealth's entry into a joint venture with a financial planning firm in May last year, Vow is clearly focussed on attracting more mortgage brokers, ...
The dealer group model is changing and BT’s Mark Spiers says financial planners will need to make choices consistent with the newly evolving reality....
GBST has released a new wealth management platform that it said is market ready for incoming Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) requirements....
Asgard’s Infinity eWRAP reached a milestone this week – passing $2 billion in funds under management....
Yellow Brick Road has increased its overall revenue but high operating costs have led to a $6.83 million net loss before tax....
FOFA has radically altered the dynamics of financial planning platforms, generating new approaches across the industry and between platform providers....
The opt-in requirement will touch the day-to-day operations of risk advisers who have switched to some form of fee remuneration model, writes Sue Laing....
ASIC has been handed a mammoth task in delivering FOFA, underscoring the tiny window available to the financial services industry to prepare for the new regulatory regime...
Early adopters of scaled advice technologies and services may have to rethink their offering as the FOFA reforms move closer to their start date....
Gloomy headlines have at least played a part in creating financial anxiety among Australian investors. Tim Browne explains why it’s important for financial advisers to us...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...