The FPA has been foremost in welcoming the Coalition’s breakthrough on the TASA legislation delivering planners a further 12 months’ exemption. ...
ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...
Challenger has predicted that it will become the highest-selling lifetime annuity provider in the industry as well as selling more lifetime annuities in 2013 than the ent...
The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....
Platform provider OneVue has made key appointments across its institutional, self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and marketing divisions in the lead-up to bringing ne...
The move by governments and corporates to exit the pension business, combined with the first waves of baby boomers reaching retirement, has shifted a higher level of risk...
The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....
The majority report of the PJC clears the way for TASA legislation with the only concession being a transition period....
Praemium has entered the cloud-based sphere with a new customer relationship management solution for financial advisers....
FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....
The Board of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has returned its founder and chief executive Andrea Slattery to the body for the second time citing g...
Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...
FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....
The mortgage and finance broking industry is facing a shortage of young people entering the profession, due largely to a lack of understanding about how to get started as...
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....