FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...
A number of advisers have launched a crowd-funding effort to counter the negative publicity which has impacted the planning profession....
AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....
The AFA has received an influx of enrolments for its recently-rebuilt education course, which it says shows an acceptance from advisers that standards have been raised. ...
The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....
The FSI final report recommendations has singled out life/risk commissions for particular attention, urging a level commissions approach....
Much as a judge or magistrate has a duty to stay impartial when hearing matters which come before their courts, so too does a Commonwealth regulator....
The AFA has sought to correct a daily newspaper article which claims advisers can obtain a Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FChFP) designation without completing ...
The Australian Labor Party has now made it clear that FOFA is a totem policy issue and that it will not be relenting in resisting any Government changes. ...
Emotional Intelligence is increasingly becoming a critical skill set for advisers, not just to improve client relationships, but to stay in business, Wayne Lear writes....
Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...
The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...
The Minister for Finance and Acting Asistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann will address a Money Management breakfast traversing key issues....
Prominent Financial Services director, Christine Swanson recognised with chair of AFA Inspire....
Fewer Australians will be able to afford to obtain financial advice following the Senate’s decision to disallow the Government Future of Financial Advice regulations, the...
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....