On the back of changes announced as part of the FOFA guidelines, My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist authority to enable accountants to continue to recomm...

Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....

While the industry has given a broad welcome to the limited licensing regime, accountants will need to be subjected to the same scrutiny as financial planners, writes Mik...

Institute of Chartered Accountants CEO Lee White sees challenges and positives in the new limited licensing regime replacing the accountants' exemption....

AMP has announced plans to acquire Cavendish Group and set up a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) business unit....

The new limited licensing regime for accountants has received widespread support from the financial services industry....

Two key accounting bodies, CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, have interpreted the Government's conditional licensing regime as a mean...

It may be as late as mid-2013 before the new accountants' advice regime is up and running....

By becoming licensed to provide financial advice, accountants will be able to charge clients for advice they are currently "giving away for free", says head of SMSF Advic...

The Federal Opposition has signalled it remains to be convinced about either introducing or supporting legislation which would restrict the use of the terms 'financial pl...

Industry experts believe proposed legislation and a new licensing regime will give way to like-for-like cost comparisons between SMSFs, industry and retail superannuation...

The idea that SMSFs tend to be pushed on clients by accountants is more of a perception than a reality, says Institute of Chartered Accountants head of superannuation Liz...

Accountants must start diversifying away from compliance work and into wealth creation and financial services, says Institute of Public Accountants general manager Vicki ...

Many independent financial planners are not taking full advantage of the capabilities of their financial planning software, contributing to practice inefficiency and miss...