financial advice

Financial planning

FPA accuses ISN of killing planner competition

The FPA has accused the ISN of conducting a politically motivated campaign to drive competition out of the planning industry....

Financial planning

AMP launches scaled advice model

AMP has officially launched its scaled advice service, My Money Choices, which has been developed based on research and in consultation with AMP planners....

Financial planning

Half out of touch with their planner

New Roy Morgan research has confirmed that up to half of planning clients are out of touch with their planners....

Policy & Regulation

Clients will evaporate after FOFA, say planners

A significant number of financial planners believe the implementation of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will not only cost them money, but als...

Editorial

The FOFA freight train picks up speed

While financial planners have warned that the FOFA changes will be significant, Mike Taylor reports that the Government does not see that as an impediment to achieving it...

Policy & Regulation

Shorten asked to 'please explain' on FOFA

The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....

Life/Risk

Asteron/CFS deal funds insurance through super

Asteron has partnered with Colonial First State's FirstChoice platform to help advisers continue to offer clients life insurance cover through their superannuation - even...

Policy & Regulation

Planners resigned to FOFA

Many financial planners have already decided that the legislation that emerges from the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will be unacceptable and ru...

Financial planning

Hillross targets growth, HNWs

AMP-owned dealer group Hillross Financial Services is looking to significantly grow its business both organically and inorganically, and will continue to target high-net-...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA giving rise to low-cost platform

The introduction of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes could spur the emergence of a new player in the platforms and wraps sector, by driving advisers who are ...

Editorial

FOFA's air of inevitability

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

Editorial

Hoping for the best from FOFA but expecting the worst

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

Policy & Regulation

OnePath program to help advisers through FOFA

OnePath has launched a program called FutureReady, which is aimed at preparing advisers for the post-Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) environment....

Policy & Regulation

Strong backing for FOFA legal challenge

A Money Management survey has confirmed strong backing for a legal challenge to FOFA....

Editorial

FOFA uncertainty erodes practice values

With the recent one-year anniversary of Julia Gillard toppling Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister and leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, the Australian financial ...