If doctors could accommodate the existence of paramedics, why can’t the financial advice profession accept a similar situation with respect to some lesser qualified advis...

The cost of delivering advice could be reduced for both advisers and superannuation funds if the Australian Securities and Investments Commission delivered a templated re...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is working to rectify its systems after identifying a cyber attack affecting Australian credit licence applications....

Financial advisers need to be trusted and empowered to use their professional judgement in circumstances where many are highly educated and have years of experience, acco...

There has been a net loss of close to 30 adviser roles, despite the lack of any major market announcements this week. ...

Removing the term ‘general advice’ and renaming intrafund advice and robo-advice to intrafund information and robo information would help reduce the cost of financial adv...

A loss in the NSW Supreme Court and action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has seen the Australian Financial Complaints Authority forced to change...

Advisers would like to deliver more cost-effective limited advice but are being precluded from doing so by regulatory uncertainty and an approach by the regulators and li...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission need only regulate in the same terms it did for early release superannuation advice to extend intra-fund advice, acco...

Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

The Financial Planning Association has leveraged the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s affordable advice review to drive home its policy for financial ad...

The current regulatory regime around financial planning is driving up costs by prioritising compliance and the needs of licensees over those of consumers, according to th...

Former adviser, Jim Pavlidis has been banned for three years after a review of his advice showed he failed to provide financial advice in the best interest of his clients...

The rules around intra-fund financial advice must be significantly tightened and ongoing financial advice support fees must become as low cost as a mobile phone plan, acc...