Lifespan Financial Planning has appointed market commentator Jonathan Pain to its investment committee. ...

Business processes, succession planning and system efficiency are among areas that advisers can focus on this year thanks to a lull in regulatory change, writes Oksana Pa...

The financial planning industry needs to demonstrate its stability in order to attract younger entrants and make financial advice attractive as a long-term career for the...

This year advisers will have help clients manage the impact of market events on their portfolios and position for what could be a very turbulent year, Lifespan Financial ...

Despite being a rewarding career path, it is becoming tough to encourage new entrants to train as a financial adviser, according to Lifespan Financial Planning....

The Government does not deserve credit for fixing “no brainer” issues in the industry and needs to acknowledge that it can regulate an industry out of existence, accordin...

The complexity of compliance frameworks for financial advice makes it more difficult to be a multidisciplinary adviser....

Servicing retail clients has become more and more risky for several advice groups due to the complex compliance requirements....

Running a financial advice practice has never been harder, Jassmyn Goh writes, and advisers must find efficiencies and restructure their revenue sources to deliver their ...

Giving once-off advice is still costly for advisers to provide and will not solve the pricing issue which has come out of the rising cost of advice....

Adrian Caspar will return to the financial adviser network to be its risk and compliance lead, as the industry deals with evolving legislative requirements....

It has been three years since the Royal Commission but, Chris Dastoor writes, financial advisers are still being held in poor light by politicians despite a low level of ...

The next 12 months will see more clients being orphaned as advisers struggle to justify certain clients under the ongoing fee arrangements, according to Lifespan. ...

Under 1,800 advisers have failed the exam and a quarter of those have failed twice or more, and an industry extension to September would have helped practices that had no...