Col Fullagar suggests that the need for an underlying logic in any risk insurance recommendation, including TPD, is an important component of safe advice....
Direct life insurance will account for 40 per cent of all new insurance business by 2021, according to Plan For Life data....
Despite infrastructure securities being a relatively immature sector, Lonsec has increased its conviction in this area as investment managers have shown they can meet abo...
As the returns from ASX200 stocks appear to be moving ever more in unison, having the ability to pick stocks outside of the mainstream market is more important than ever,...
Younger Australians are more likely to have lost superannuation, although many are doing nothing to reclaim it, according to a new report from Westpac....
Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....
With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...
By convincing younger financial advisers that 'sales' is not a dirty word, Synchron has reduced the average age of its representatives by 10 years since 2006, according t...
Ratings house Standard & Poor's points to the changes to AXA North since AMP acquisition and institutes some downgrades....
One of the men who led the Timbercorp Growers Group through a number of legal battles, Chris Garnaut, has written to ASIC raising issues around actions taken by the Respo...
Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...
Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...
After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....
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...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...