A group of financial planners in Mexico are completing life insurance sales within 15 minutes of a client walking through their door, according to CommInsure business gro...

AMP Financial Planning has claimed a lack of demand is the reason for removing industry superannuation funds from its approved list, but Industry Funds Services has impli...

New research has revealed it is still a man’s world when it comes to the executive positions of the finance and insurance industry....

Retail managed funds have increased by 20.2 per cent from last year, to a total of $467.4 billion at the end of March, according to new Plan for Life research....

Aspiring advisers were brought down to earth last night by industry commentator Ross Greenwood who told those thinking of financial planning as a get-rich-quick scheme to...

Standard & Poor’s has claimed the increasing risk in ‘safe’ fixed-income securities could be a disaster waiting to happen and that some investors had no idea of the poten...

FICS has reported a considerable reduction in consumer complaints against financial services providers....

Exacerbating Australia’s insurance gap sting, new research has revealed that only 14 per cent of individuals view risk insurance as a coping mechanism for when life has d...

The Australian Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) is joining forces with Professional Investment Services (PIS) in a move that should deliver considerable benefits for bot...

Researcher InvestorWeb has warned advisers to be aware of the risks associated with high yield credit investing compared with traditional fixed interest assets, as credit...