The new AFA president said it would not match resources with anti-advice groups but focus on member and consumer engagement....
Financial services group Spring FG says it will never be pursuing a dealer group model again after a “bitter experience” with a rogue licensee last year. ...
Financial planners who act as gatekeepers for clients are working towards their retirement date having missed the next growth area of financial advice....
Higher standards is the mantra but have planners dragged the chain on lifting them? ...
As the financial planning industry grapples with how to institute new professional and education standards, Jason Spits examines what mind-set and attitudes new entrants ...
A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....
Integration between advice and mortgage broking has reintroduced conflicted remuneration banned under FOFA with the move labelled a ‘deliberate’ exploitation of a legisla...
People’s Choice Credit Union will develop a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) offering and enhance its current superannuation product range in an effort to expand i...
ISA claims it supports non-conflicted financial planning advice and its position on non-conflicted superannuation puts it on the same side of popular opinion...
The number of SMSFs set up by accountants has fallen 20 per cent in the last two years according to research conducted by Investment Trends....
Charter Financial Planning and Dover Financial Advisers have been named Dealer Groups of the Year based on data gathered as part of the Money Management Top 100 Dealer Gr...
The referral arrangement between Cbus and FPA will move onto a permanent footing after agreement to roll out the program nation-wide....
The results of the FSI’s interim report emphasises the need for tax deductions those who pay for financial advice, the Institute of Public Accountants claims....
Former CBA CEO Ralph Norris was aware of some of the problems relating to financial planning advice...
AIOFP has called on the Federal Government to reintroduce an ownership disclosure regime and for the equal prosecution of executives who have overseen poor advice....
What happened to the 700,000 million of MLC if $1.2 Billion was migrated to Expand but Expand had only 512 Million in in...
The judge was quite undrstanding! THEN AASSIICC comes along and closes him down!All you 15600 people who work in the bu...
How could that underestimate happen?usually the quote transfer straight into the SOA, and what on earth has the commissi...