The AFA has a new focus on adaptive practices for advisers entering the new financial year and will incorporate a new framework for financial advice....
Financial Services Council chief executive, Sally Loane, has defended her organisation's role in pursuing the Life Insurance Framework pointing to the unsustainability of...
Former BT Group Licensees executive, Steven Browning, has launched The Strategy Institute, which will offer consulting services and online learning resources....
Australia’s HNWI population has increased 3.5 per cent during 2014-2015 to a total population of 226,400, according to Capgemini....
More CFOs are hiring interim managers to save on costs, reflecting a labour market that is seeing increasing part-time work due to employer uncertainty. ...
There was nothing to be gained for the Government by mandating the LIF, and the FSC must have initiated the changes to the framework, a financial planner said. ...
ASIC rules that rating financial products constitutes providing financial product advice....
Industry super fund, Cbus, has launched an in-house financial advice service model and will expand its over-the-phone advice offering later this year....
Property investors are increasing purchasing established properties with two or more bedrooms, according to Mortgage Choice. ...
Advisers need to hold their clients to account with their personal ad-hoc record keeping, so they don’t exceed the contribution caps. ...
A group of risk advisers have labelled FSC’s positioning on LIF as cartel behaviour, and said the industry should have gone to the ACCC with its life insurance propositio...
An ageing population and the end of the financial year period is seeing more people consider funeral bonds, which are exempt from Centrelink assets tests....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...