The regulator has confirmed scaled advice can be provided under best interests duties outlined in Future of Financial Advice changes....

Australia's major life insurers need to jointly develop a dictionary of common data terms and descriptors, according to the chief executive of major insurer, TAL Limited,...

Some boutiques are not providing professional indemnity cover to new advisers according to Townsend Business and Corporate Lawyers....

ASIC said it is currently unable to provide clarity on some key licensee concerns....

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

The Coalition will undertake a review of the industry's external dispute resolution arrangements next year if it is elected to government, according to Shadow Minister fo...

FSC chief executive John Brogden has indicated the organisation needs to take a stand to more broadly influence greater economic policy....

Superannuation funds can increase member engagement by offering limited advice, says Mercer....

The Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has predicted that few of the financial services reforms implemented by the Gillard Government will be amended or repea...

The Federal Opposition has declared it will move quickly to repeal the worst elements of the Future of Financial Advice regime....