Financial planners should ensure they are providing good quality advice to avoid ending up in front of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Fold Legal has advised....

While there is talk of higher levels of inquiry from AMP financial planning clients, the degree to which that translates to an exodus to independent financial advisers wi...

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has already canvassed a tougher and more effective regulatory and lice...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accused financial services licensees of wanting to make clients actively opt-in to the remediation process around...

ActiveLead.net has launched a new product to help financial planners offer active advice to their clients, with the goal of improving client retention....

High fee product manufacturers are going to have to prove their value proposition, according to the latest research from Investment Trends....

The Financial Planning Association has harshly criticised proposals to increase compliance penalties against financial planners to double those imposed against people fou...

ANZ chief executive, Shayne Elliott has declared that financial planners will be a key part of ensuring nothing appears to have changed following the bank’s disposal of i...

The fintech whitepaper released by the Financial Planning Association has listed the benefits advisers could receive from being adaptive....

The Financial Planning Association has warned that financial planners who dob-in colleagues for misconduct may not be adequately protected under the Government’s new whi...

New Investment Trends research has revealed that demand for good financial advice has never been higher but planners are struggling to retain clients in an environment wh...

The big banks should not be the sole contributors to a last resort compensation scheme with small planning groups being made to make up-front contributions, according to...

The Financial Planning Association has told the Productivity Commission that planners are being strangled by the demands and costs of meeting the needs of seven different...

Senior bank executives are being treated little differently to planners under the terms of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime, according to Federal Treasurer, Sco...