TenFifty Financial Group combines advice businesses previously aligned with Garvan, Apogee, and Meritum and will stand as a community for self-employed advisers and advic...

Two boutique dealer groups, Spark Financial Group and Aura Wealth Australia, have announced they have signed binding agreements to merge. ...

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...

The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

As AMP moves to exit up to 250 financial planning business over 80 planners say they will face financial ruin as a result....

How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has foreshadowed court action in the wake of a review of fee disclosure statements and renewal notices which uncovere...

Money Management currently runs a new series in which we speak with financial planning groups who share their views on the industry in a post-Royal Commission environment...

Risk-focused financial planning group, Synchron has confirmed the turnover of around 20% of its advisers in the face of the new Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Aut...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told financial planning firms it expected them to “keep up” with the implementation of regtech....

Centrepoint chief executive, Angus Benbow, makes no bones about the group’s desire to grow the number of planners working under its license....

Dealer groups are looking to grow their footprints on the back of the influx of advisers expected from the changes at AMP, the Commonwealth Bank and elsewhere....

The Government has imposed the administrative burden of redistributing grandfathered remuneration on product issuers rather than onto financial advisers or licensees....