While the ultimate shape of FOFA might depend on who wins the next Federal election, financial planners will have a busy year ahead nevertheless, writes the FPA’s Dante D...
The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) is seeking clarity from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regarding the circumstances b...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the class order relief for funded representatives involved in the winding up of an insolvent comp...
Mike Taylor argues that if financial planners are to follow a template for becoming a profession, they should choose medicine over the law....
Updated regulatory guidance published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) late last year has shifted much of the compliance burden directly ont...
Responsible entities (REs) for managed funds should be subject to a two-tiered regulation process that weeds out those that do not have the skill set to assess complex pr...
The new guidance on best interests duty implies asset-based fees are just as conflicted as commissions, according to Claire Wivell Plater....
Auditor General told that a moral hazard may be generated by the manner in which the so-called APRA levy is raised....
Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...
A small number of bad apples in the financial services industry once again managed to attract significant attention in 2012....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended the Australian financial services licence of Sydney-based planning practice Cabot Square Financi...
The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, confirms he remains to be convinced on the need to legally restrict use of the term 'financial planner/adviser'....
LGH Holdings director and accountant Mark Ronald Letten will stand trial on more than 30 criminal charges in relation to property holdings and development of real propert...
Former South Australian financial planner Trevor Wayne Carll has been sentenced to two years in prison with a 13-month non-parole period....
AMP Horizons has made changes to its advice processes after they were found wanting by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...