Given a decade of generally bad publicity for the financial planning sector, it is a wonder that planner numbers have not seriously declined....

New research suggests bank-aligned planning groups might suffer if consumers become fully aware of their parentage....

ASIC’s enforcement report for the first six months of this year appears to have skirted the issues that made the biggest headlines....

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

Private wealth and boutique adviser groups have topped the list of planners and clients with high levels of funds under advice according to data gathered in this year’s M...

Private wealth and boutique adviser groups have topped the list of planners and clients with high levels of funds under advice according to data gathered in this year’s M...

Macquarie has used its AGM to claim it is on track in meeting the terms of its 2013 Macquarie Private Wealth enforceable undertaking....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has refused to conede that the Government’s FOFA changes will generate more risk....

The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....

Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry must lobby the Palmer United Party to defend hard-won FOFA gains. ...

The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....

Former CBA CEO Ralph Norris was aware of some of the problems relating to financial planning advice...

Former High Court Judge, Ian Callinan, has been named to head CBA's independent compensation review process....