Even the strongest of client relationships can be tested when returns are weak. As Tom Reddacliff explains, long-term relationships between financial planners and their c...

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

The Federal Opposition has declared it will move quickly to repeal the worst elements of the Future of Financial Advice regime....

Australia's two financial services regulators have acknowledged the level of stress and uncertainty being experienced by financial services companies as a result of the G...

Some question the background of key ASIC personnel handling FOFA regulatory development....

New report advocates tailoring SMSF advice to generational needs....

Concerns have been raised about the ever-shrinking independent dealer group sector and the potential impacts on the advice provided to clients in the future....

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....

Financial planners must take into account generational differences when preparing advice for SMSF investors, according to a new report....

The Government has agreed to a FOFA carve-out for commissions paid on time share sales....

SFG Australia launches new managed discretionary account products into allied groups - Shadforth, Outlook and Western Pacific....

Rushed financial services reforms such as FOFA and Stronger Super are exacting a heavy toll on financial planners and superannuation funds....

On the back of changes announced as part of the FOFA guidelines, My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist authority to enable accountants to continue to recomm...