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Plans to disallow significant portions of the Government’s FOFA reforms have been blocked by the Senate....
Financial planning
ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....
Financial planning
AMP chief executive, Craig Meller says self-interested parties are seeking to dumb down advice to just product selection....
Financial planning
The Government's proposed registry of financial advisers will provide transparency without the costs associated with regulation the Minister for Finance and acting Deputy...
Editorial
Restoring confidence in the financial advice profession has become a catch cry for institutions recently, but the reality of the proposal is still a way off, Amelia Const...
Superannuation
Professional associations should take over setting CPD standards if adviser standards are to improve, SPAA argued. ...
Financial planning
The corporate regulator states a co-regulatory model could work for financial advisers but says it is cost-effective and ethically practical to only work with one profess...
Financial planning
A Rockhampton-based financial adviser has been banned from working in the financial services industry for five years....
Policy & Regulation
Debate over the Government’s FOFA amendments has distracted Australians from focusing on the real purpose of financial advice, the AFA believes....
Financial planning
Consumers who bank via a tablet are more engaged with their bank and access more products according to research undertaken by ING Direct....
Financial planning
ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, confirms planners and SMSFs are on ASIC’s radar over the next 12 months....
Financial planning
Financial institutions should be prohibited from providing any form of adviser education to avoid perpetuating current business models which have promoted sales over advi...
Financial planning
Non-aligned advisers are using technology to build referral networks and outsourcing non-specialist work....
Editorial
The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....
Financial planning
Australian financial planners use less sophisticated software than US and UK counterparts and have focused on FOFA compliance instead of business efficiency....
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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,...