Promoting the savings message will become more muted this year after the Government cut funding to the Office of the Retirement Commissioner in its Budget....
Insurance and superannuation industry watchdog, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), can not adequately oversee government endorsed super funds, accordi...
OAMPS Insurance Brokers executive director Kingsley Lamont has resigned from the group’s board and will not act as a director for the next three years....
Planners should be more active in promoting the need for trauma insurance, according to world-renowned cardiac surgeon Marius Barnard....
Well-known financial services figure Bonnie Guilford has departed AMP Financial Planning and joined Timbercorp in the newly created position of marketing and technical ma...
In two separate and unrelated announcements, the Australian Securities and Invesments Commission (ASIC) has made rulings against two insurance agents....
A major shakeup of the Commonwealth Bank group in New Zealand sees Sovereign taking over the marketing of Colonial First State Investment's (CFSI) retail funds, with the ...
Corporate watchdog David Knott has stood down from his post on the board of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in the wake of the collapse of HIH Insur...
In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....
Discipline is a word that Deborah Kent is familiar with in both work and play. ...
Genetic testing is likely to remain at the forefront of issues facing the life insurance industry over the next decade. Aaron Driver reports on how the major players are ...
Critical mass and a penchant for specialisation has propelled Trinity Financial Services forward as this North Queensland practice sets its sights on the road ahead. Nico...
Financial planner regulation is firmly on the agenda in New Zealand after the president of the Financial Planners and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA), Paul O'Brien,...
Independent Queensland based Legalsure Investments are pursuing an active recruitment drive and looking to strengthen its national presence....
Australian Financial Securities (AFS) is a dealer group with a difference, carving out a niche market in financial planning through access to venture capital investments....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...