BT Financial Group has opened the way for clients to not only rate their planners but post comments on how they performed....
The new AFA president said it would not match resources with anti-advice groups but focus on member and consumer engagement....
Banning upfront commissions on insurance products is not the answer to weeding out unscrupulous advisers, according to The Boutique Financial Planning Principals’ Group (...
ASIC has secured a restraining order preventing a foreign exchange company and its former director from carrying on a financial services business....
An Australian financial services business has agreed to cease providing services in Japan after an inquiry by ASIC found it was not licenced by the Japanese regulator....
BTFG moves unilaterally be introducing its own adviser register and providing scope for client feedback and assessment....
Australian Unity chief executive claims some planners are under-estimating the time and costs tied up in self-licensing....
More than 4000 customers of the CBA's planning businesses have registered for a review of the financial advice they received following the launch of the Open Advice Revie...
A raft of legislative and regulatory change in the financial planning sector has essentially made long-time advisers feel like new entrants to the profession, according t...
The AFA announced it has appointed former AFA Treasurer and NSW director Deborah Kent as national president....
ClearView Wealth has received 100 per cent approval from the shareholders of Matrix for its purchase of the financial planning group....
Financial services group Spring FG says it will never be pursuing a dealer group model again after a “bitter experience” with a rogue licensee last year. ...
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?...