What can be done to stop the rot in financial services? Steve Browning discusses....
One cannot help but ask whether the proposed changes to the margin-lending landscape are being rushed through, writes David MacLeod....
The Federal Government has revealed the draft regulations that will make up its new margin lending regime, including an example PDS....
A single national financial planning disciplinary committee should be established to replace the disparate committees of the industry associations, according to Anthony V...
Amid the push to boost education standards in the financial planning industry, experience will still be central to protecting the interests of clients....
In light of the numerous inquiries into financial services as well as changing attitudes to adviser remuneration, SUE VISKOVIC considers the benefits of overhauling your ...
Reading their submissions to the Ripoll inquiry, it's clear that not only do ASIC and Treasury hold very different views, but Treasury, in particular, has no desire to se...
The Commonwealth Bank ramped up sales targets hoping to wring more and more business from Storm Financial, according to a FSU statement to the Parliamentary Inquiry into ...
A member of the Ripoll Inquiry expresses concern that Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris will not be personally fronting committee hearings in Sydney this Friday....
It is not possible to prescribe the number of clients in a practice, according to Guardian Financial's Steve Browning....
The Financial Planning Association has formerly rejected a claim in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that membersh...
Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...
New client suitability tests for margin lending may be only the beginning of such assessments for financial services products, a specialist lawyer has said....
ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....
Many clients didn't even know they were Storm clients, according to FIA chief executive Spiro Paule....
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...