The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed FOFA amendments extending opt-in time-frames....
ISA claims ASIC’s fee disclosure requirement update leaves consumers in the dark on fees charged by ‘for-profit’ superannuation funds run by banks. ...
Advisers need to change the language they use to connect with clients, instead of forcing them to learn adviser language, a financial adviser said. ...
MLC has internally appointed Vanessa Rowe as general manager of MLC Direct to help with seamless end-to-end advice....
Suncorp Life announced it will exit from its Guardian Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning businesses mid-2016, affecting the jobs of around 170 advisers....
A global study has found that 44 per cent of consumers still rely on family and friends for financial advice....
While 22 per cent of Australians believe they do not need a financial planner, 23 per cent are kept up at night by their finance, according to a survey....
There is growing interest among financial advisers to implement social media strategies into their businesses to connect with clients....
While super reforms are important to help close the gender gap in retirement income, there are other external issues to super that have a greater impact, according to AIS...
Super administration remaining just a record-keeping service is not sustainable and funds should invest in technology to stand out from the crowd....
Shaw and Partners has appointed an institutional equities specialist to grow its institutional business capabilities....
Financial planners have a key role in educating consumers that life cover provided in super may not be enough....
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?...