While the industry funds laud the FOFA legislation, the key financial planning groups maintain their rage against opt-in....
ipac south australia has acquired Intervest Holdings, a practice with seven planners and $230 million FUA....
A high level of fiduciary care towards clients is not just a regulatory requirement, but sensible risk management for advisers as well, according to Equity Trustees head ...
Andrew Bailo takes a look at the issues arising from the Future of Financial Advice reforms, and concludes that the harmful changes outweigh the beneficial ones....
What does ';best interests' advice mean for financial advisers? Pam Roberts reports....
AMP chief executive Craig Dunn has outlined how his company will approach the merger with AXA Asia Pacific, stating adviser retention and customer satisfaction will be tw...
Money Management wants to know how you feel about the proposed FOFA changes....
The Treasury's two 'best interest' duty options, offered up to the Future of Financial Advice Peak Consultation Group for discussion, have been met with a mixed response....
Not-for-profit superannuation fund trustees have been warned that if they do not agree on fund governance guidelines they risk having them imposed by the Government....
The Federal Opposition has signalled it believes that the regulatory framework around superannuation fund mergers is inadequate, and that both members and the regulators ...
Mike Taylor reports that the former chief justice of the High Court, Sir Anthony Mason, has pointed to the legislative challenges facing the Government in delivering an e...
Opes Prime boss Laurie Emini will stand trial in the Victorian Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to ASIC charges....
Former High Court judge and patron of the SPAA, Sir Anthony Mason, believes intra-fund advice should be subject to the same fiduciary duty obligations as full advice....
The Industry Super Network has commissioned a poll it claims proves its point on annual opt in....
Not many financial planners and dealer groups have thought enough about the practical implications of fiduciary duty on the actual advice process and systems, says the ma...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...