The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

While ASIC continues to press for more powers with respect to bank management staff and product design, Mike Taylor writes that the real answer lies in successfully separ...

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

Anne Fuchs has moved to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial Officer within the AFA....

Financial advisers are being urged to educate their clients about the importance of estate planning....

AFA members will have to abide by six new principles of professionalism, which are set to form a critical part of the AFA’s revised Code of Conduct....

A central register of advisers could help weed out rogue operators in the financial advice space and rebuild trust in the profession, the Association of Financial Adviser...

A letter written by Senator Mathias Cormann to Clive Palmer confirms the concessions that were necessary to ensure passage of the regulations changing FOFA....

The Association of Financial Advisers has thanked the Palmer United Party “for its proactive action” in voting down a move to disallow the Government’s FOFA reforms....

Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....

The Senate could disallow the Government’s FOFA changes as early as Monday unless cross-bench and PUP senators can be persuaded otherwise....

As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...

Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Ian Narev has promised a detailed response to last week’s scathing Senate Committee report as Financial Services Minsiter, Senator Math...