Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...
Super Concepts has announced the release of a new advice service for the self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) market that tracks performance of individual SMSFs....
The Federal government will channel an extra $11 million into the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority over the next financial year, financed through widespread lev...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has teamed up with five industry groups to form a consultation panel to assess strategies to prevent 'bad appl...
Strategy firm Financial and Technical Solutions (FTS) has been signed up by financial planning compliance system, Keys, to provide technical advice in developing specific...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed a senior executive to fill its vacant and now combined head of corporate services and member services roles, along ...
The Financial Planning Association has clashed with the Australian Investors Association over the latter accusing the FPA of making false and misleading statements along ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will crack down on shoddy financial reporting to ensure accounting standards are met as a key focus in its 200...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) and the Australian Tax Office (ATO) will walk away from...
The new generation of high performance BDMs will be highly sought after in the market, but require more support than their predecessors, PETER DAWSON says....
The ‘very poor’ ratings received by some dealer groups in the ACA/ASIC shadow shopping survey has led them to rethink how they operate. BEN ABBOTT investigates....
While the ACA/ASIC Quality of Advice survey may have come as no surprise to the FPA, the planning industry is still reeling from the fallout, as JULIE BENNETT reports....
Question: Is it compulsory for a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) to register for GST? If not, is there any advantage in doing so?...
This year will see the FSRA come into force in financial planning practices everywhere, but what else is on the agenda? JULIE BENNETT reports....
Asgard has expanded its service offering to include a self managed super fund (SMSF) adminsitration product, SuperLink, in a bid to stake a claim in the $109 billion do-i...
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...