Learning from the lessons of similar reform in the United Kingdom, Australian financial advisers need to ensure adequate standards and controls are in place ahead of the ...

The approach ASIC has signaled it will adopt to scaled advice and the best interests duty is a welcome development for financial planning industry....

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

The Financial Planning Association has upgraded its consumer-facing website in a move it says is designed to help Australians make informed financial decisions....

The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....

Despite FOFA reforms now being imminent, there are several regrettable reasons many businesses are using to delay addressing the changes, according to a paper from PwC an...

Promoting the value of advice and improving consumer confidence are some of the main goals of this year's Financial Planning Week, according to FPA chief Mark Rantall....

One-off expenses AMP estimates it will incur dealing with regulated changes highlight the need to have performed a regulatory impact assessment on FOFA, according to Sena...

Australia's three professional accounting bodies are in danger of losing members heavily engaged in the financial planning industry over new standards being proposed by t...

CommCentral has launched new software which manages different adviser remuneration models combined with inbuilt FOFA rules....

ASIC signals it will apply the same rules to both scaled and holistic advice....

There has been an increasing focus on advice around aged care and support services, with the announcement of the Federal Government's aged care reforms....

Calls for independent inquiry into Australian financial system to redress undue influence of major banks....

Even the strongest of client relationships can be tested when returns are weak. As Tom Reddacliff explains, long-term relationships between financial planners and their c...