Advisers who don’t have the confidence or ability to control the value and price of advice they deliver are going to end up salaried to a bank, fund manager or insurance company, according to ...

If there's one industry in which business coaching makes a great deal of sense it's financial planning. The sector has been buffeted by proposed regulations that will fundamentally change the way ...

Clients are becoming more savvy and are questioning the payment of sales commissions, as are some in the industry itself. For the past 15 years, Jim Stackpool has been helping financial planners wean ...

Tomorrow’s financial planners won’t take trail commissions — they’ll charge an upfront flat rate instead. And rather than just selling products, they will offer a much broader advice proposition. Most ...

Conflict-free financial advice Alan Kohler speaks with Jim Stackpool, the Founder and CEO of Certainty Advice Group, about how he's driving the shift for charging financial advice from percentage fees ...