Industry superannuation funds have been delivered a clean bill of health on their use of third-party advice services. ...

Adviser numbers were already running close to 15% below the industry’s long-term average even before the end of 2020 and before the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is insisting it has empathy for financial planning licensees because it has both former advisers and paraplanners in ...

Financial advisers may be significantly constrained in using the term “independent” but asset consultants are largely in the clear because asset consultation is not a leg...

Anyone looking for over the top largesse being heaped on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission will be sadly disappointed. ...

Financial advice regulatory and legal requirements, and applied ethical and professional reasoning and communication, were the two biggest problem areas in the October ex...

Questions are being asked about whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wrong to treat asset consultants differently to financial advisers i...

A majority of Godfrey Pembroke advisers have signalled they will be signing up to a new Godfrey Pembroke-branded license under IOOF but around 25% appear to have made alt...

Financial advisers could be placed at risk of retribution when switching licensees under the reference checking protocols being put forward by the Australian Securities a...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is going to have to explain why it chose to describe a man convicted of dishonest conduct as a ‘financial adviser’ wh...

Retirement was always a primary reason for financial advisers selling their businesses but the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has accelerated many retir...

Superannuation funds are being subjected to more scrutiny from the corporate regulator over how they deliver insurance inside super to members at the same time as the reg...

Advisers need to be confident that a prospective licensee will be around in the future if they are looking for a discounted licensee, according to a panel....

Sustainable dividends, a non-benchmark approach to selecting companies, and stock-specific hedging can help manage risks while generating equity income, according to Merl...