Mike Taylor reports that a number of submissions filed with the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills have revealed a serious disconnect between what the...
An average UK consumer is willing to pay no more than AUD$230 for financial advice, according to a survey carried out by CoreData in the UK....
There is too much crossover between MySuper legislation and Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation for the two to be considered separately, according to the Corpor...
AustralianSuper has urged against any delays to the implementation of FOFA, claiming the financial advice industry has had sufficient time....
The FPA has warned the Parliamentary Joint Committee the FOFA bills, as drafted, will fail to meet the objectives of better and more accessible financial advice....
The passing of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has paved the way for an increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG)....
The Industry Super Network (ISN) has urged the Parliamentary Joint Committee to leave FOFA intact and lamented Government concessions on risk in superannuation and annual...
Financial adviser-sold retail risk insurance outside superannuation is set to grow at 9 per cent per annum over the next 15 years, according to a Rice Warner report into ...
BT Financial has announced a new fee-for-advice option which will be made available to a number of BT Retail Personal Super and Pension funds....
Members of the Financial Planning Association are more prepared to meet the changes required by the Government's Future of Financial Advice changes....
The concerns about FOFA held by Australian financial planners have been placed in a global context....
Cost-effective scaled advice will only be possible if the Government gets the policy and regulatory settings right, according to ANZ general manager for advice and distri...
The ISN has used an ASIC report that found around 90 per cent of income of the top 20 licensees is paid by product providers to reiterate calls for key elements of the FO...
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has been accused of protecting industry superannuation funds and handing them an edge in the provision of financial advice....
Newcastle-based Hunter United Employees' Credit Union has launched a low-cost web-based superannuation product to service the Hunter Valley....
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...