Financial Planning

MM: Has the controversy over soft dollar commissions and conflicts of interest in financial planning damaged the credibility of advisers?...

Women could be the big winners from the superannuation co-contribution scheme for low income workers, with more than 126,000 expected...

Findings recently released by AXA Australia and Dexx&r into the level of under-insurance in Australia reveal that Australian women are...

Fund managers and product providers may still fail to meet the deadline to comply with the new dollar disclosure regime,...

In any situation, humans have a natural tendency to take sides and look for someone, or something, to blame when...

Financial planners who provide direct equity advice have failed in their bid to gain an exemption from having to provide...

Professional indemnity (PI) costs for some financial planners could plummet by as much as 25 per cent after the QBE...

Global small caps have almost doubled the return of Australian small cap funds, says Merrill Lynch managing director Maurice O’Shannassy.“The...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would back a push to enshrine its code of conduct on soft dollar payments into...

MLC has pre-empted any future moves to ban exit fees on investment and superannuation products by removing such fees from...