Describing another week in her practice, Jennifer Moss says recent rule changes to retirement savings are causing people to lose faith in the super system....
Product pushing is a bummer. Disclosure is all good. Financial Services Reform (FSR) is a positive. Becoming a certified financial planner is a must. Fee-for-service is c...
The last place financial planners want to be if the world’s economic plates shift is with their heads in the sand. Ray Griffin wonders whether many planners are prepared ...
Risk advisers can benefit from using research. But as Ross Kelly discovers, that’s not where the story ends....
More and more financial planners are getting into risk insurance, but it is not as straightforward as it may seem. For the first time, the FPA will tackle some of the iss...
Damian Franco knows a fair bit about risk rating research. When he was state manager at Guardian Financial Planning a few years ago, he was given the onerous duty of sort...
The chief executive of Rothschild Australia’s Golden Arrow Funds, Clive Donner, has bought out the funds for an undisclosed amount....
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released a guide to help Australian Financial Service licensees who suspect they may be breaching relevant regulat...
The trustees of a number of self-managed superannuation funds can expect to be contacted by both the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Prudential Regulation A...
Financial services education provider Tribeca Learning has recruited high profile former Deutsche Bank chief economist Don Stammer to chair its board....
The impending choice regime has had little impact on the prosperity of the $71.9 billion industry fund market which reaped the strongest inflows in the superannuation sec...
National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...