Financial services business broker claims things have changed and some baby boomer planners should consider their exit strategy....

Consumer advocate group CHOICE has called for more stringency around financial advice conflicts of interest, such as asset-based fees....

Consumer advocate group CHOICE has called for more stringency around financial advice conflicts of interest, such as asset-based fees. ...

Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib claims conflicted remuneration is still a problem for the planning industry with too many noses in the trough....

Efforts by the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and NAB/MLC to lift planners’ educational and ethical standards have been lauded by the FPA as evidence its drive towards industry p...

The FPA is using its annual Financial Planning Week to try and change consumer perceptions that financial planners are only for the affluent....

The financial planning industry has illustrated “inappropriate levels of quality” going back more than a decade, ASIC said....

ASIC will investigate former financial advisers with the Macquarie group which is to contact 160,000 clients who received advice over the past decade about the possible p...

As consumers get savvier and more sceptical of financial advice, advisers have to fight harder than ever to justify their value proposition, but the smarter ones still ha...

The ISA claims vertical integration and FOFA changes pose risks to fair default fund regime....

High net worth clients are willing to pay well for scalable advice with their demands indicative of future advice and investment trends....

Changes to FOFA amendments agreed between the Government and PUP will act as levers against a planner in a dispute with a client....

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

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