While firms have used more technology during the pandemic, there are still tools such as data management that could be better utilised by financial advisers. ...
The Association of Financial Advisers has proposed an alternative graduated pathway for experienced advisers to avoid the introduction of the proposed pathway which it wo...
In its first major move since the separation with Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State has announced it will partner with FNZ for a platform launch by the end of the y...
The Financial Services Council is hoping the Quality of Advice review will chart the course to end two decades of regulatory encroachment on the advice industry....
Over a quarter of paraplanners would be open to becoming financial advisers, creating an opportunity for them to consider the professional year as hundreds exit the indus...
There is an expectation that the total number of advisers will drop to 17,200 in January, and thereafter to between 15,000 and 16,000....
Potential adviser recruits are looking for practices that can mentor them, have technical training on hand, but also give back to the community....
A one-page overview would be better at engaging clients with advice and to demonstrate how the advice is helping clients achieve peace of mind....
The regulatory overreach placed on the industry has led to poor outcomes for advice clients and regulators need to start trusting the industry again, an adviser believes....
The corporate regulator’s financial advice hub aims to be a single repository to help industry participants more easily find information....
The changes in advice-led business model are forcing asset managers to respond to a growing direct market....
The affordability of advice issue can be solved through technology and MoneyGPS believes its tech can bridge the unmet advice gap for Australians who cannot afford compre...
The advice industry is “antiquated” in how it functions and direct investors who cannot access advice are an “accident potentially waiting to happen”, according to a pane...
The Profession of Independent Financial Advisers says it is in the late stages of getting approval to be an “officially-recognised” professional standards body by the Pro...
Digital hybrid advice is an answer for Australians excluded from advice due to high costs and for those who do not have ‘complex advice needs’....
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?...