Life insurance manufacturers need to take responsibility for last week’s ASIC report into life insurance and supply products that meet consumer needs and not research hou...

A raft of legislative and regulatory change in the financial planning sector has essentially made long-time advisers feel like new entrants to the profession, according t...

The AFA announced it has appointed former AFA Treasurer and NSW director Deborah Kent as national president....

AFA and FSC form working body while FPA calls for insurance providers to review their offerings...

A new statutory body should control education and professional standards according to FSC, however it may sideline professional associations seeking self-regulation....

Debate over the Government’s FOFA amendments has distracted Australians from focusing on the real purpose of financial advice, the AFA believes....

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

Anne Fuchs has moved to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial Officer within the AFA....

Financial advisers are being urged to educate their clients about the importance of estate planning....

AFA members will have to abide by six new principles of professionalism, which are set to form a critical part of the AFA’s revised Code of Conduct....

Financial advisers’ high regulatory burden is the product of a system that wrongly fails to distinguish “high risk” and “low risk” advice, an adviser believes....

A central register of advisers could help weed out rogue operators in the financial advice space and rebuild trust in the profession, the Association of Financial Adviser...

A letter written by Senator Mathias Cormann to Clive Palmer confirms the concessions that were necessary to ensure passage of the regulations changing FOFA....