Adviser Ratings partners with Aon to bolster cyber-protection
27 March 2017 by Professional Planner
Independent online platform, Adviser Ratings, has today announced a partnership with risk and people advisers, Aon, to launch a cyber-insurance policy, designed to protect advisers and their customers against the increasing risk of cybercr...
Ethics must start with industry commitment
22 March 2017 by Daniel Paperny, Financial Observer
The financial planning industry had a collective responsibility to safeguard the public from errant advisers and more work was needed to ensure unethical planners could not continue to serve clients, according to the FPA.
Royal commission will go ahead: Murray
21 March 2017 by Sarah Kendall, Financial Observer
A proposed royal commission into the financial services industry would go ahead within the next few years as the sector had so far failed to build the public goodwill necessary to avoid further dramatic regulatory change, according to Fina...
CPA Australia optimistic about financial advice despite network of 18
21 February 2018 by Alice Uribe and Edmund Tadros, Australian Financial Review
When professional body CPA Australia opened its financial advice subsidiary seven months ago, it expected it to be a solid challenger to the "vertically integrated" models of the bank-owned financial planning businesses, but after $1.5 mil...
AMP adviser numbers plunge
19 February 2017 by Alice Uribe, Australian Financial Review
A big drop in the number of advisers in AMP's training academy has raised more concerns about the financial giant's ability to recruit and retain advisers, with 570 advisers leaving in the past year.
Adviser Ratings launches Google reviews
27 January 2017 by Sarah Kendall, Financial Observer
Online advice review site Adviser Ratings has formed a partnership with Google that will allow consumer ratings of financial advisers who have signed up with the platform to appear as Google ratings when users search for them online.
Survey ranks how companies handle and process claims.
18 December 2016 by Finder
A new study into the claims performance of Australian insurance companies has uncovered the businesses which received the highest and lowest satisfaction ratings, according to financial advisers.
Adviser Ratings taps into small business
22 November 2016 by Daniel Paperny
Consumer advice site Adviser Ratings has partnered with trading platform Small Business First in an exclusive referral scheme that will help give Australian small businesses access to professional advisers.
Getting good advice
20 November 2016 by David Koch, Business Builders
We start businesses because we’re passionate about the craft; that’s why we get advice from experts in all sorts of areas. But the key piece of advice so many businesses overlook is financial advice.