Legal experts Samantha Hills and Grant Holley dissect the best interests duty and the obligations that come with it....

Colonial First State has relaunched its regulatory reforms website for financial advisers to cope with post-FOFA environment. ...

Due to conflicts surrounding the link between product and advice, large parents of financial planning groups should use monitoring mechanisms to ensure the advice provide...

AFA has launched a new initiative to “connect and support” females across the financial advice industry....

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched a new product – a Global Managed Volatility Alpha strategy....

AMP Horizons has made changes to its advice processes after they were found wanting by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Some financial advisers who regarded ETF growth as merely cyclical and not structural are starting to change their position, according to a report published by ETF Consul...

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell told Money Management there was enough life policy churning in the financial advice industry for the regulator to be concerned about the issu...

The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

The advice industry needs to work out the best way it can adapt to an increase in online participation by consumers....

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned against going too far to address churn when it is not systemic, and only a few advisers are guilty....

ASIC will soon hold discussions with the financial planning industry about the potential for setting up a self-regulatory organisation which would develop and administer ...

ANZ's Paul Barrett says educating consumers is the key to growing adviser credibility....