The Australian Financial Complaints Authority should have no involvement in ongoing investigations into systemic issues and should cede the role to ASIC, according to the...

When it comes to selling a financial advice business, firms with investment and superannuation clients in their early sixties can attract the highest multiples....

Only 67% of advisers have passed the January exam, much lower than the overall average pass rate of 78%....

Four former IOOF-licensed firms, four of them Bridges operatives, have moved home to Count Financial....

What would financial advice look like if it was unconstrained by the existing regulatory regime? The industry funds want to find out....

The Financial Planning Association has warned that without a scaled approach by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission small financial planning practices cou...

While financial advisers have signalled they are generally open to switching licensees, salaried advisers have strongly signalled they are attracted to self-employment....

If AMP’s joint venture with Ares around its private markets business comes to fruition it will have topped up the company’s commercial war chest but reshaping the advice ...

The annual renewal will lead to unintended consequences which will have negative implications for financial advice practices and flow on effects in terms of extra cost an...

CountPlus boss, Matthew Rowe, has forewarned shareholders to be ready to feel the revenue effects of the removal of grandfathering and product rebates but has claimed the...

Almost one-in-two licensees are handing it back within five years and active advice is likely the only viable business model, according to Encore Advisory Group....

The delivery of financial advice is becoming increasingly expensive and the Government needs to review the ASIC levy in circumstances where it has been rising exponentia...

A major superannuation group wants amendments which would see advisers empowered to agree the scope of advice with clients upfront....

Increasing compliance burden, technology advancements, fee scrutiny, and questions on the benefit of advice have led the industry to lose one-third of advisers over the n...