Former Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones has been appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. Earlier ...

Take-up of AI tools is inevitably spilling into the advice space, but new research suggests this does not signal a decline in ...

AFCA complaints about Shield and First Guardian have reached 3429 as ASIC has spent the past few weeks catching the attention of investors who are unaware they may have been invested in the schemes.

Industry veteran Geoff Lloyd has added Australia's largest licensee owner Entireti to his portfolio of chair roles, alongside ...

Quality of Advice Review lead Michelle Levy understood that accountability belongs with the licensee. Parliament should ...

Licensees will be free to employ a new class of diploma-educated financial advisers and charge for their services in a last-ditch effort by Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones to legislate ...

Innovative is one of the most used and overused words in wealth management, so much so that it has almost lost its meaning.

Ferras Merhi, the financial adviser central to ASIC’s investigation into the $1 billion Shield and First Guardian collapse ...

The Financial Advice Association Australia has questioned the impact of continued tinkering with superannuation laws from the government, arguing Treasury needs a clear roadmap for change ...

AI has made public authority commercially valuable, but many financial services firms still treat public communication as a compliance risk to be contained, rather than an asset to be managed. That ...

Advice firms running multiple advisers, and licensees overseeing hundreds or thousands of them, are finding that the hardest ...

The Albanese government has released long-awaited draft legislation on Tranche 2 of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes legislation, confirming the eradication of Statements of Advice and ...