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Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...

Policy & Regulation

Labor will support Govt FOFA changes on grandfathering and other key elements....

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Policy & Regulation

Planners are accused of hanging on to horse and cart in their resistance to FOFA changes....

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Financial planning

Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann says the Government remains committed to its FOFA changes....

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Policy & Regulation

The actions of one senator reversing their support for the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will undermine competition in the advice sector, Synchro...

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Policy & Regulation

FOFA reforms as they stand push affordable advice further out of reach without addressing consumer protection, academic says. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has answered parliamentary questions about superannuation union liaison officers, the type of advice they can provide and whose AFSL they might be working under....

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Policy & Regulation

Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...

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Policy & Regulation

The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...

Financial planning

FPA’s outgoing chairman, Matthew Rowe, says the FPA won’t seek to defend the indefensible where bad advice is concerned....

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Policy & Regulation

Fewer Australians will be able to afford to obtain financial advice following the Senate’s decision to disallow the Government Future of Financial Advice regulations, the...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has voted down the amendments to FOFA after protracted debate and procedural wrangling which occupied most of yesterday’s sitting time....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....

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Financial planning

AMP SMSF has backed calls for making it compulsory for financial advisers to undertake specific training if they are going to advise on SMSFs....

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Policy & Regulation

Efforts to pass a motion in the Federal Senate to disallow FOFA amendments have stalled for the time being after the Federal Government blocked a vote on the motion....

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