Asteron Life has produced new research underscoring both the value of advice and insurance....

Actuarial consultancy Rice Warner expresses concern that proposed FOFA changes will undermine the delivery of intrafund advice....

Advisers believe the FOFA reforms are a now only a distraction from delivering quality client services and building their personal brand, a recent survey by the Advice Le...

It would be very easy to have read the announcement by the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, that he was pausing the FOFA change process as some sort of a vi...

Accountants are grossly miscalculating the cost of licensing their own SMSF advice business, with many expecting to pay around an eighth of the actual cost....

ASIC has outlined four key areas for regulatory improvement - including for a national exam, a wider register and greater banning powers....

The FPA uses its FSI submission to point to need to more clearly define the risks in general and personal advice....

Scaled and scoped advice has received undue focus under the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation, and is a sign of increasing levels of paternalism in legislatio...

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby has explained the high cost for planners in complying with an unamended FOFA regime....

Impending changes to aged care legislation will have many questioning whether or not they should sell their homes. And financial advisers will have a crucial role in stee...

Opposition parliamentarian Ed Husic has claimed ASIC is 'walking both sides of the street’ in taking a facilitative approach to regulating the implementation of the FOFA ...

The Commonwealth Bank has called for all financial advice fee payments to be made tax deductible....

Despite the best intentions, the FOFA reforms constrained quality advice and left little wriggle room for planners wanting to expand their experience, writes Rob Caprioli...