The Corporations Act still dictates that the sale of a product remains integral to the definition of financial advice and regulating around that fact is like trying bang ...

Wholesale clients should have the financial capability and knowledge necessary to rely on professional indemnity insurance rather than accessing the proposed new compensa...

Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

With AMP Capital representing the jewel in the crown of AMP Limited, what will the bidders for the business have in mind for AMP’s financial planning business?...

Financial planning licensees are urging a highly cautious approach on their planners because of the continuing uncertainty around the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...

Mike Taylor writes that the Financial Planning Association may well have identified a key element of the future of the financial advice industry but no one should overloo...

Both advisers and their clients are opting for telephone and screen-based consultations amid growing fears around transmission of the coronavirus....

Rising authorised representative costs might make it more sensible for independent financial advisers with relatively low turnovers to consider becoming salaried planners...

Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...

Former dealer group chief executive, Paul Harding-Davis has questioned whether it is possible to separate product from advice when the underlying legislation actually tie...

A former dealer group head and current investment committee chairman believes the Royal Commission and the regulators have failed to identify the practices of some platfo...