The financial advice industry's FOFA lobbying effort has highlighted the need for a united voice, according to a panel of experts....
Compliant industry codes of conduct deemed to obviate the need to comply with opt-in requirements will have to meet a hefty set of criteria, according to ASIC commissione...
Having clients believe that placing money in bank deposits constitutes investing will have a detrimental effect on both the financial advice industry and the end consumer...
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has called for higher levels of competency in the provision of financial advice following recent damni...
ASIC's regulatory framework around financial planner education is changing, which means many planners will have to pull their socks up and hit the books. Chris Kennedy re...
The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...
Regulatory uncertainty is causing the financial planning industry to contract and dissuading young graduates from taking up the profession, according to FSC chief John Br...
It is up to the financial planning industry to actively lift its standards regardless of what arises out of the FOFA legislation, according to Association of Financial Ad...
The Opposition is demanding the Government reveal the costs and benefits of its FOFA legislation....
As many as 35,000 people in the financial advice industry will lose their jobs if the proposed FOFA reforms go ahead without amendment, according to the Association of Fi...
ASIC has been placed on notice to adopt a more independent stance in the wake of the regulator having presented a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) with preliminary dat...
ASIC has been placed on notice to adopt a more independent stance in the wake of the regulator having presented a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) with preliminary dat...
The Government has ensured financial planners will have a voice at its latest superannuation roundtable....
Bryan Ashenden tries to find a resemblance between the changes FOFA will bring to the financial advice industry and Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution....
The FOFA reforms well and truly dominated the financial planning industry during 2011 and the year ahead looks set to bring more of the same, writes Nicolette Rubinsztein...
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...