Platform progress with Connie Mckeage.

Social media continues to play a huge roll in how advisers engage with their clients. But more work needs to be done in how they coordinate their activities in this area. Joining us in this video is Hans Egger, director of AstuteWheel to further discuss this issue.

The amendments to the future of financial advice reforms recently announced by the government sparked a lot of discussion around what the resulting implications for the industry might be.Brad Fox discusses FOFA amendments.

Improving financial literacy is a continuing challenge for the financial service industry. Join George Lucas as he discusses the critical nature of this issue and the influence of the compulsory retirement savings regime.

Job losses were front of mind for many last year with speculation cuts among large institutions would trigger wide scale cuts to head count. Financial Recruitment Group’s Judith Beck joins us to discuss recruitment trends for 2014.

Exchange traded funds continue to be a popular investment vehicle that Australia financial advisers and investors are turning to. Amanda Skelly from State Street Global Advisors joins us to discuss ETF trends, market growth, the effect of regulatory reforms and the strategies being used for asset allocation.

Welcome to the video wrap from day three of the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference.

Divorce is an event that has greater ramifications for SMSFs because these types of funds need to satisfy retirement savings requirements for, usually, a husband and a wife. Chris Hodgins, Client Manager at Super Guardian discusses this issue.

A recent research report entitled “Are trustees prepared for retirement?” was compiled by the SMSF Association and Accurium and it addresses adequacy in the SMSF sector. SMSF Association Head of Technical, Peter Hogan discusses some of the findings.