Insurers including Zurich, Asteron and ING have called on Treasury to reveal some of its intentions concerning commissions for life insurance....

Some independent advisers seeking to acquire other small planning practices are getting into debt without determining whether their practice can actually afford the repay...

Platforms are taking a bigger slice of the investment value chain than they deserve, according to the head of asset management at Equity Trustees, Shaun Manuell....

Count Financial subsidiary Countplus has paved the way for listing by making changes to its executive team and issuing its prospectus with the corporate regulator ahead o...

Advisers have been warned against making simplistic comparisons between fund ratings from different research houses in the Australian market....

The FPA will use its annual conference this month to outline a new direction as a professional association....

Count Financial and Professional Investment Services are adapting to the new world order....

A potential buy-out of Peter Daly's Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has collapsed at the final stages....

DKN’s Phil Butterworth warns that the price of reform may be fewer and much busier planners....

Financial planners who delayed their retirement plans as the financial crisis hit are now starting to come back to market....

The Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms carry with them the risk of tilting the financial advice industry in favour of the major institutional pl...

High-profile firm Dixon Advisory has begun recommending geared residential property investments for its self-managed super fund clients....

In response to an article by Col Fullagar, Macquarie Life's Justin Delaney explains the reasoning behind the firm's new Active life insurance product....

Australian financial adviser sentiment is slowly recovering after a volatile couple of years....