The financial services industry is being urged to embrace technology to help boost consumers’ understanding of financial products....
A Sydney-sider who made investment recommendations to clients without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) has been banned from providing financial ser...
Consumers have high regard for financial advisers’ “technical abilities”, but their trust in the profession has been shaken in recent months, new research reveals. ...
Forecast interest rate increases in the US and UK allied to a weakening Australian dollar could see a “rush of capital out of Australia”, Australian Unity Investments chi...
Financial planners are being urged to take a ‘financial services oath’ to uphold integrity in the profession, by the Australian Labor Party....
Boutique funds management organisation, Treasury Group, has completed its merger with US-based Northern Lights Capital Group as previously announced....
Financial advisers need to pay close attention to the mental health of their colleagues and clients, Affinia general manager, Craig Parker believes....
The actions of one senator reversing their support for the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will undermine competition in the advice sector, Synchro...
A former financial adviser has been jailed after being found guilty of stealing shares worth almost $1.5 million to meet margin calls on his mother’s margin lending accou...
Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...
AMP has settled on two court proceedings: one class action which affected superannuation members and a second regarding insurer policies. ...
ASIC has released the results of the latest adviser exam, with August’s pass mark improving on the sitting from a year ago. ...
The inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and broader wealth management companies by the Senate economics references committee will not be re-adopted. ...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...