After this week’s leadership challenge the Federal Government will not waste political capital championing changes to FOFA according to the AFA....
The AFA has been accredited with the TPB, allowing eligible members a new avenue to seek registration with the board. ...
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
Financial planning firm, Anne Street Partners (ASP), has appointed former St George Financial Planning executive, Jason Dunn, to the role of head of strategy and advice w...
Financial advisers’ fee structures abet “closet indexing” by fund managers, creating a clear conflict of interest between planners’ earnings and their clients’ best inter...
Retail investors significantly lack geographical and asset class diversification in portfolios, Goldman Sachs Asset Management found....
Client relationships are the only real value financial advisers can bring to the table as automation increasingly replaces the process work, Wayne Leggett said....
Accounting graduates may prove the “feeding ground” for the evolving financial advice space, according to the head of the AFA. ...
FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...
New research suggests few superannuation fund members have any real idea of the life insurance they hold inside super....
Strong interest from Money Management readers sees plans for reignition of crowd-sourced pro-adviser campaign....
A number of advisers have launched a crowd-funding effort to counter the negative publicity which has impacted the planning profession....
Financial advisers need to start thinking about flat fee for service arrangements becoming the new normal....
AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....
IFM Investors has acquired a 24.99 per cent stake in a Mexican infrastructure group for US$600 million, and will invest in a Mexican toll road....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...