With a third of FOS determinations going unpaid the efficacy of Professional Indemnity insurance as a compensation mechanism is under question and, as Mike Taylor reports...

While ASIC is right to pursue more timely breach reporting by financial planning firms it should acknowledge that the vast majority more than live up to their obligations...

Restoring confidence in the financial advice profession has become a catch cry for institutions recently, but the reality of the proposal is still a way off, Amelia Const...

Investors who take a business-owner approach and shut out market noise are in the best position to distinguish between price and value, Julian Morrison writes. ...

With regulatory change shining a spotlight on fees, platform providers are under increased pressure to justify their value. Perhaps innovation is the key to retaining adv...

The concerns expressed by FOS on the renaming of “general advice” overlook the importance of creating a clear separation between advice and product sales....

Alternative investments, like hedge funds, can be seamlessly blended into portfolios, but the trick is to remember they are not an asset class in their own right, Andrew ...

In an increasingly competitive advice space, planners could benefit from ditching benchmarks in favour of goals-based investment, Craig Keary writes. ...

The risk market has bounced back from six months of sluggish activity with growth across both the individual and group sectors, research has confirmed. ...

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...