The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

Accounting bodies claim Government’s concessions to planners on TASA are a negative outcome for consumers....

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

The AFA has appointed Deborah Kent to its board as NSW director, replacing Mark Hoskin....

CPA and ICAA argue against any delay to TASA implementation, claiming it will generate consumer uncertainty....

The Federal Opposition says that so far as churn exists in the life/risk sector it should be subject to a self-regulatory approach....

FPA and AFA make last-ditch call for financial planner elements of TASA bill to be removed to allow appropriate review....

Super contribution cap welcomed for older workers but slug on higher earners is disincentive and adds complexity to system...

Corporate super advisers will need to team up with super fund administrators to ensure a continuation of their revenue stream as a result of the combined effects of the F...

AFA chief executive Brad Fox says the AFA will re-engage with the FSC around churn but that the major insurers must also ante up....

ASIC will spend the next 12 months focusing intensely on churn, according to the senior executive leader of the financial advisers team, Joanna Bird. ...

Only the Coalition in the Senate stands between the passage of the legislation enshrining ‘planner’/‘adviser’....

Financial advisers who focus on communication with clients benefit at the bottom line...