Every financial adviser has faced a challenging client interaction in their career. Whether it's reigning in bold suggestions ...

The Financial Services Council has called for reviewing the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort and addressing adviser ...

A rigid structural system in place has made it difficult to innovate product solutions for life insurers who are combatting ...

Platform provider HUB24 will close Xplore Wealth, just four years after it acquired the managed discretionary account service ...

Until the retirement products offered by super funds – primarily account-based pensions – are performance-tested by APRA, ...

Two major Australian financial services businesses, Insignia Financial and Iress, have made agreements with overseas buyers – one for an acquisition, the other for a divestment. “In order to determine ...

To better recognise the progress being made in the advice profession, the Professional Planner Advice Policy Summit will argue the case for the policy levers that should be pulled outside of what was ...

Professional Planner is the leading voice for financial planners where they can learn about industry standards, get news, information, debate and develop new ideas. We acknowledge the Traditional ...

This article was produced in partnership with Colonial First State. When it comes to investing, Australians are a patriotic bunch with a tendency towards home bias – investing primarily in the ...

When it comes to interest rates, the pause in central bank rate hikes was “powerful” for the REIT sector, and rates did not need to plummet for the asset class to outperform, Pica says. Other positive ...