Ethics classes for financial planners should be fundamental to the new education standards, with self-regulation a near impossible benchmark for the profession, two indus...

The insurance industry has been allowed to “morph” itself into a financial advice profession blind-sided by hidden agendas, according to accounting firm, Chan and Naylor....

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...

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

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

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

Money Management’s 2014 Top 100 Dealer Group research has revealed an industry which has changed substantially since 2007/08 and might be on the cusp of further change. ...

The financial planning industry has undergone some momentous changes in the last few years and it’s critical the planners respond to the changing environment at the same ...

Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry must lobby the Palmer United Party to defend hard-won FOFA gains. ...

The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....

Andy Schmulow argues that the controvesy surrounding ASIC and its handling of the Commonwealth Bank have seriously damaged the financial planning industry and left few pe...

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...