The FOFA reforms well and truly dominated the financial planning industry during 2011 and the year ahead looks set to bring more of the same, writes Nicolette Rubinsztein...

SMSFs are already in advance of the Stronger Super objectives according to Andrea Slattery, the chief executive officer of the Self Managed Super Funds Professionals' Ass...

With both tranches of the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation now released, participants in a Money Management roundtable discuss the good, the bad and the ugly ...

Superannuation funds will need to invest in a significant amount of infrastructure before they are ready to launch a financial advice service to their members, according ...

The Government's FOFA legislation will undoubtedly change some of the relationships which exist between planners and their clients but, as Sonnie Bailey writes, underlyin...

Technology is playing an even bigger role in financial planning. New software developments have a good chance of achieving cost and administrative efficiencies ahead of u...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) believes the liability for scaled online financial advice should fall on a financial planner, but a lack of sp...

ASFA urges better clarity on FOFA legislation to ensure planners are not exposed to vexatious litigation over scaled advice and best interests....

The use of advice technology by industry funds is not something to fear according to a technology provider....

Super funds providing scaled advice to their members may soon be required to play by the same rules as the rest of the financial planning sector, as the corporate regulat...

The Industry Super Network has again used research it commissioned from Rice Warner to substantiate its arguments on opt-in but, as Chris Kennedy reports, many of the Ric...

Advisory technology of the kind used by super funds to provide limited advice could help advisers and dealer groups retain and profitably service C and D clients in a fee...

The upcoming FOFA reforms will see the removal of commissions on life risk products in super. Money Management conducted a roundtable discussion with leading industry pla...

As superannuation funds seek to move further into the provision of full service financial planning, a recent report prepared for the West Australian Government has raised...