The Royal Commission when combined with the Federal Election will dictate significant change for financial planners in 2019. ...
Suzanne Smith has taken out Woman of the Year at the Money Management Women in Financial Services Awards, on a night that acknowledged some of the women doing the most to...
The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has signalled his intention to take a greater role in superannuation and financial services policy, albeit the assistant treasurer, Stuart ...
Mike Taylor writes that one of the few certainties flowing from the current Royal Commission is that the Australian financial services industry is facing further signific...
Financial services employees’ mental health is an ongoing issue, with 44 per cent of workers in the industry having left their job because of a poor mental health environ...
Specialist financial services lawyer, Dr Hillary Ray has suggested that in the aftermath of the Royal Commission, boards of AFSLs may need to make themselves much more aw...
ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser for seven years after finding he had used his clients’ assets for his personal benefit. ...
Operators of ‘binary options trading boiler room’, Jana Jaros and Jackson Capper, have been convicted and sentenced....
Industry Super Australia has attacked what it sees as a bank planner sales culture likely to impact choice of fund and suggested that policy-makers risked leaving consume...
FOS has received a record number of disputes in the 2016/17 year, driven mainly by general insurance which made up 38 per cent of the increase....
QMV founder, Mark Vaughan has succeeded fellow founder Michael Quinn as managing director of superannuation consulting and technology firm, QMV....
Money Management’s 2013 Woman of the Year, Fiona Trafford-Walker, looks at steps firms can take to help overcome challenges women face in the workplace....
The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...
Euroz Securities chief executive, Robert Black has been elevated to the firm’s parent company, Euroz Limited, board....
The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...