A number of the recommendations likely to flow from the Royal Commission will be viewed as unfair but the financial planning industry will need to be pragmatic if it is t...

For a financial services industry suffering the harsh glare of a Royal Commission, the future resides in pursuing professionalism and excellence....

If financial advisers fully owned the relationship with their clients, many of the issues uncovered by the Royal Commission may have been avoided....

The recent release of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry report into the Life Insurance industry makes clear that planners h...

As key players in recent outcomes in the financial services industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Author...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants competition powers added to its regulatory armoury, but history suggests a need for caution on the part of the ...

Few governments can match the Turnbull administration for delivering increased regulation to the financial services industry....

Mike Taylor writes that the advent of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will change the raison d’etre and commercial models of Australia’s two l...

The financial planning industry’s acceptance of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will depend on the success of the authority’s consultative pro...

As advisers move away from the vertically-integrated model, platform technology providers are responding with better solutions for privately-owned dealer groups and indiv...

If one thing has served to distinguish 2017, it has been the increasing costs of regulation imposed on the financial services industry, writes Mike Taylor....