AFA’s Phil Anderson says that despite pushback on Royal Commission recommendations to change trail commissions for mortgage brokers, advisers were still better prepared f...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has granted one credit recognition of prior learning to coursework linked to the AFA’s FChFP designation and SAFAA’s ...

Financial advisers are facing significant extra hours of work to transition clients across to annual renewals....

Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....

The two associations have come together to help those impacted by the bushfires to rebuild financially....

The Financy Women’s Index has posted its best performance of 2019 in the December quarter thanks to a number of fresh records set in women’s financial progress....

How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...

Self-Managed Superannuation Funds should be exempted from the Government’s new design and distribution regime because they are not like other financial products, accordin...

Advisers and their clients should retain control of opt-in arrangements and there should be flexibility for low fee-paying clients with less frequent interactions, accord...

Submissions directed to Treasury around the end of grandfathering revealed little significant resistance but genuine concern around how client rebates should work....

Amid concern and confusion around how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission yearly opt-in and fee disclosure will work, adviser groups are urging flexibili...

Three months after the resignation of Matthew Rowe the Government has looked to former NAB Wealth executive, Will Hamilton, to fill the vacant industry spot on the board ...

The Government may have promised action months ago, but the legislation which will extend the time-frames applying to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority...

Faced with unilateral action on the part of some superannuation funds, the Association of Financial Advisers has sought to move ahead of the Government’s 2020 legislative...