Questions are being asked about Industry Super Australia’s integrity after its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign was labelled as potentially misleading by ASIC....

Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...

The grandfathering problems that plagued the advice space a year ago continue to stymy advisers and remain heavy burden on consumer choice, the Association of Financial A...

The AFA is not surprised by the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the FOFA amendments but wants the line held on product advice....

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and foundation award partner Zurich have launched the inaugural advice practice of the year award....

The AFA has restated its wariness about the general advice exemption at a Senate hearing. ...

Measures in the Abbott Government’s inaugural budget have divided financial planning groups, prompting both praise and condemnation. ...

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

Milana Pokrajac explores the pluses and minuses of vertically integrated dealer groups and the concept of a so-called ‘benign institution’....

While education has long been the yardstick by which advisers are measured, the bar has been raised and standards have become more widespread than ever before. As Jason S...

The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....

The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...