FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

WHK suffers flat six-month result as planning demand shows limited recovery....

Superannuation

Membership to the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) has jumped by 50 per cent in less than a year....

Policy & Regulation

The principles of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms should be extended across a broader range of financial services roles and products, and not just stop at f...

Financial planning

The independents in the House of Representatives have become the target of lobbying efforts on the part of the financial planning industry....

Financial planning

Questions have been raised about the motives of industry superannuation funds offering financial planning services, with the industry defending itself against suggestions...

Financial planning

The FPA welcomes continued primacy of ASIC in regulating planners on tax advice....

Editorial

Financial planners may be upset with Club Plus' Paul Cahill for some of his recent comments, but they should embrace his acknowledgement of the value of advice, Mike Tayl...

Funds management

Yellow Brick Road Wealth Management has launched its own term deposits, claiming to be the first non-bank in Australia to do so....

Superannuation

Representatives of some financial planning industry bodies have expressed anger over the lack of planner representation on the newly formed Stronger Super Peak Consultati...

Editorial

Milana Pokrajac takes a look at recruitment in the wake of the GFC and considers the impact this has had on the job market....

Financial planning

Club Plus Super's in-house financial planning service has proved to be invaluable, according to the company's chief executive Paul Cahill....

Editorial

In an industry known more for conservatism than experimentation, social media has appeared as a minefield. But in the face of that risk, finance brands are making the lea...

Editorial

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

Financial planning

Institutions may claim that product biases in buyer of last resort (BOLR) agreements have been removed, but grandfathering arrangements have meant that, up to five years ...

Financial planning

There is likely to be an increase in the number of Financial Planning Association (FPA) licensee members who provide mortgage broking services from the current level of a...

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