ASSOCIATION OF FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Policy & Regulation

A surprisingly large response to a combined Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Services Council forum on the Future of Financial Advice changes indicates fin...

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers tells its members it is time to move on with the new post-FOFA environment despite being wedged by the Govt and Industry Super Netwo...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and Financial Planning Education Council have released for consultation a national financial planning curriculum that also calls for a ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Future of Financial Advice reforms may have passed through the House of Representatives but there is plenty of unknown detail causing concern to the major association...

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Editorial

In the lead up to the Federal Budget it remains to be seen whether the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, will deliver on legislating the restricted use of th...

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers says exposing the degree to which the Industry Super Network was driving the Future of Financial Advice changes represented one of t...

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Editorial

Some of the players might not approve of the way in which the FOFA bills will ultimately be shaped but, as Mike Taylor reports, a Money Management roundtable has conclude...

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Financial planning

Scaled advice remains an area of considerable uncertainty despite the Future of Financial Advice bills having passed the House of Representatives....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council and Association of Financial Advisers have joined together to provide a forum looking at life in a post-FOFA financial planning world....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should take certain precautions when investing in technology, according to Synchron chair Michael Harrison....

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Financial planning

This week's iPad edition of Money Management is out now with the latest in news, exclusive video content and features....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association say the ISN has no justification for maintaining its anti-planner advertising post-FOFA....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA's Mark Rantall has told a Money Management roundtable that asset-based fees should not act as an impediment to ASIC providing class-order relief from opt-in....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA's code of conduct will not be the only approach considered by ASIC, with the Association of Financial Advisers's principles of practice also ready for implementat...

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Policy & Regulation

Strongly divergent views have emerged from Australia's major financial planning organisations in the wake of the FOFA bills, while the Opposition has made a policy commit...

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