The FPA has stressed the importance of assigning a deadline to new educational standards for the profession in a submission to another parliamentary inquiry. ...
Platform provider HUB24’s acquisition of Paragem has been completed....
Australian asset owners are tossing and turning at night as they try to keep up with and meet regulations of all sorts, BNP Paribas said....
Australian financial planners use less sophisticated software than US and UK counterparts and have focused on FOFA compliance instead of business efficiency....
The founder and director of the responsible entity for two MISs which were wound up owing around $200 million is fined $10,000 for failing to assist the liquidators....
Proposals to introduce a ‘restricted advice’ label would help to bring transparency to the financial advice consumers Infocus managing director Rod Bristow believes....
Young Australians are increasingly looking for quick fix advice to make their savings last, while over 50s have their eyes squarely on retirement, FPA research has reveal...
The Boutique Planners argue that resolving advice disputes should be the province of planner professional associations....
Financial planners are sourcing almost a third of their revenue from risk advice and showing little hesitation when it comes to switching insurers for the best deal....
The Federal Government should audit of the reviews within financial services to ensure the FSI is not lost within other overlapping inquiries and reviews. ...
Australian institutional platform providers should see themselves as boutiques, as global players start heavily eyeing the Australian market, SFG Australia head of platfo...
Herbert Smith Freehills says the financial services sector needs new regulation that will put a spotlight on “product rationalisation”....
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?...