Wealth Professional forum - have your say

Pretty confident the FOFA changes will be passed and everything can settle down back to normal? Don't be. ISA says the amendments overreach and will crumble the country's financial services industry read more

• Well said again Craig, can't add much to that except to say that I ...
• When a commission payment to an adviser is built into the cost of the product (e ...
• So there's a difference of opinion between ISA and "other financial service repr ...
• The answer is simple...impose the best interest duty on the ISN. How can they p ...
• You are very right, Mel. REST does not have a 'HARDSHIP' provision so a young mo ...

Preparing for the new fee disclosure regime? One financial planner compares it to a military exercise, but warns not to waste the new opportunities which come with changeread more

• Maybe we don't want to re-engage with those clients...maybe they are now even mo ...

Too busy with clients to properly sit down with all the proposed FOFA regulations? Halsey Legal Services set out 'before and after' changes to key amendments – so you can get on with looking after what's importantread more

• Congratulations to the old labour government for ensuring that the legal industr ...
• Thank you Halsey Legal Services for some great education for advisors and smalle ...

Salaries have increased the most in a year within the insurance and superannuation sector, job salary research from Seek shows. But how do financial advisers fare?read more

• Yep, what Alan said. Maybe the rates are based on advertised rates under a ...
• Hard to believe that risk advisers average salary is so much more than plan ...

There is growing adviser demand for funds focused on absolute returns and capital preservation despite market volatility, fund managers sayread more

• I kicked off with some comments on this article due to a frustration with the in ...
• Damian, if we use an Australian equities fund that is "index unaware", how do we ...
• Hi Andrew and others, You are correct that strictly speaking absolute return ...
• We agree with these comments and our Australian Equities Fund is index unaware a ...
• Hi Andrew, Interesting the issues you have raised... you may be interested to kn ...