By having trustees supervise client directed payments from their pension funds, Stephen Jones and the federal Labor gove...
Now we now the size of Stephen Jones' CSOLR tax, I doubt anyone will be employer any new financial adviser from this poi...
Amazing ! Between the beginning of licencing Feb 2002 and 2008 this was a very good stable industry.Then the do-gooders...
AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....
A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...
The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....
This is satisfying good news. Financial planners have been through a period of considerable change and adaption. but the advances are now to be seen and hopefully more gains will be realised with a stronger body overseeing professional standards and conduct and showing peer leadership. Thankfully some of the attempts to water down professional standards, such as excusing some planners from passing exams, came to nought.
The big test is a survey of clients and actual clients as to their opinion of the current standing of financial planners and advisors. I think there is still quite a journey to lift the financial planning profession in their eyes, but the results of this study underwrite the profession.