Steve Blizard

Financial planning

Make ongoing advice as affordable as a mobile phone

The rules around intra-fund financial advice must be significantly tightened and ongoing financial advice support fees must become as low cost as a mobile phone plan, acc...

Financial planning

Intra-fund advice has created advice unfairness

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...

Policy & Regulation

AustralianSuper frequent flyer offer prompts concern

A new frequent flyer promotion by AustralianSuper has generated criticism from some financial advisers....

Financial planning

Are intra-fund advisers really tied agents?

A financial planning principal has questioned whether salaried advisers employed by industry funds to provide intra-fund advice are really just a modern version of the ol...