ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell has used his speech at the AFA national conference to announce major surveillance of retail advice with respect to life insurance. ...
CommInsure’s Tim Browne says the company had stopped using the word ‘churn’ because it doesn’t accurately represent the underlying issue, which is policy design....
Bank executive confirms impact of grandfathering on practice funding. ...
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos flags what could be a lengthy process to FOFA changes....
The FPA has written to the Government seeking clarity around grandfathering and urging a tax deduction for the provision of initial advice....
Six women have been named finalists for the third annual Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL AFA Female Excellence and Advice Award. ...
The major planning organisations are already gearing up to meet with the new Abbott Government ministers....
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the finalists of its 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year Award....
The FOFA fee disclosure requirements seem to have confused as many clients as they have informed....
For those advisers aspiring to greater things, two recent pieces of research may contain the insights they need to drive their business further, according to Zurich’s Ric...
Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...
The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....
The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....
Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...
Industry Super Network CEO David Whiteley has made an appeal to financial advisers to give FOFA a chance to work before rushing to have the reforms amended. ...
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....