Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....
Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service jumped in the first quarter of this year, while three quarters of resolved cases were by agreement rather than FOS decision....
SMSF trustees are using CFDs to become more strategic with their portfolios and to ensure recent downturns are not adversely affecting their retirement goals, according t...
Col Fullagar suggests that the need for an underlying logic in any risk insurance recommendation, including TPD, is an important component of safe advice....
Direct life insurance will account for 40 per cent of all new insurance business by 2021, according to Plan For Life data....
A former director of a South Australian insurance broker has appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on 88 charges of dishonesty following an investigation by ASIC....
Superannuation insurance provider Beazley has appointed a new head of finance for Asia-Pacific and an Australian claims manager....
Despite the rise of direct channels, financial planners are better poised to engage customers about life insurance, according to industry executives....
TAL’s Jim Minto argues that while the current economic climate is continuing to worry consumers, now more than ever is precisely the time financial advisers and insurers ...
New analysis from the US suggests investors are insisting hedge funds insure against the untimely demise of their investment gurus....
A former adviser for Guardian Financial Planning has pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to falsifying 65 insurance applications in order to collect commissi...
SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery believes the new licensing regime set to replace the accountants' exemption would create a bigger role for the association....
The SMSF Academy's Aaron Dunn looks at some of the changes flowing from the Stronger Super reforms and how those changes will affect SMSFs....
Given the slowest share market recovery in years, many investors will wait it out before diving back in. But taking the same approach with asset allocation in superannuat...
Susanna Khouri believes the Trio Capital debacle has highlighted the need for better mechanisms to compensate investors for loss....
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,...