A Money Management round table of financial services industry chief executives has backed the concept of a co-regulatory model for the financial services industry....
A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...
In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are to join together to push regulatory reform of the financial services industry....
Failure of high profile companies testing guidelines to the limit; questions as to whether PI insurers will continue to provide insurance to planners....
Fees will be decided by industry competition, up to regulator to promote competition....
Anyone who was surprised by the official line of IFSA on the question of intra-fund advice has now had a reality check....
It is time to start putting Australia’s financial planning education regime into perspective so that new objectives can be pursued, writes RICK DI CRISTOFORO....
Squabbling on the part of groups of financial planners is serving to undermine the broader interests of the financial planning industry, according to the chief executive ...
The Federal Government's move to allow superannuation funds to provide advice to members has served to unite the financial planning industry in voicing its opposition....
The term 'financial adviser' should be restricted to those who are regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....
The various committees within the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have outlined their policy priorities for the 2009-10 financial year. The following...
The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the exclusion of insurance from the Investment and Financial Services Association's new superannuation charter....
Financial planners must take the lessons they’ve learnt from the GFC and begin applying them if they hope to survive the next economic upheaval....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...