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A financial planning and accounting company head has taken the media to task for seeking to tar financial advisers with the one brush when he says the vast majority are t...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission granted class order relief with respect to advisers being required to be members of a code-monitoring body and questi...
Financial planning
The AFA has called on the Labor Party to support the one-year extension for advisers to meet exam requirements as the party had withdrawn its previous support....
Financial planning
While industry associations have welcomed the six-month deferral, they have called for the Government to be open to reviewing the timeline given the uncertainty of the CO...
Life/Risk
Data needs to be collected on the fees paid to lawyers on group life insurance claims, according to the Association of Financial Advisers....
Financial planning
Advisers receiving asset-based fees have ‘skin in the game’ which is important at time such as the current market volatility being generated by COVID-19, according to the...
Financial planning
Another drop in the pass rate for the FASEA exam has shown the industry is going to struggle to give affordable advice to Australians unless it can bring in more talent....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has echoed the Association of Financial Advisers in calling on Choice to retract derogatory comments about financial planners....
Financial planning
Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin, wants a Choice executive to withdraw a statement suggesting financial advisers can’t be trusted to act in c...
Financial planning
Extraordinary circumstances call for a changed regulatory approach says AFA....
Financial planning
Both advisers and their clients are opting for telephone and screen-based consultations amid growing fears around transmission of the coronavirus....
Financial planning
Advisers should not be tainted by media reports that they are using stamping fees as a remuneration loophole, according to the Association of Financial Advisers. ...
Financial planning
The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has backed MySuper members having access to once-off financial advice, rather than ongoing advice with ongoing fees....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has been challenged to explain why financial advisers and mortgage brokers are being targeted in the wake of the Royal Commission when others inclu...
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....