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The FSC has proposed a three-year renewal framework, which would allow consumers to opt out and cease payments at any time, as an alternative to the opt in proposals....
Financial planning
The Industry Super Network has commissioned a poll it claims proves its point on annual opt in....
Policy & Regulation
The principles of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms should be extended across a broader range of financial services roles and products, and not just stop at f...
Financial planning
The independents in the House of Representatives have become the target of lobbying efforts on the part of the financial planning industry....
Editorial
The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...
Editorial
Customers take out insurance through a multitude of channels, including directly and via financial advisers. And with a major underinsurance issue in Australia and a huge...
Financial planning
If the shift to a fee-for-service model does come into play next year as part of the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, it is expected that lis...
Editorial
Financial planners may be upset with Club Plus' Paul Cahill for some of his recent comments, but they should embrace his acknowledgement of the value of advice, Mike Tayl...
Financial planning
The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....
Financial planning
An online petition addressed to the Minster for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, is calling for ‘opt in’ to be scrapped....
Superannuation
Superannuation funds are being urged to make sure they are ready to provide financial advice to members in a sustainable way over the coming year....
Financial planning
Although most advisers are working to improve the public image of the advice industry, the next generation is in a better position to do so....
Financial planning
Despite evidence showing increasing consumer demand for Internet and phone-based simple financial advice outside of super, the industry seems to be moving at a snail’s pa...
Superannuation
Super fund members are reluctant to take up financial advice due to lack of knowledge in what the offering entails and the cost involved, according to research by Profess...
Editorial
With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...
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Podcast
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,...