The majority report of the PJC clears the way for TASA legislation with the only concession being a transition period....
Provisio Technologies will offer its online advice tools to financial planners, expanding its user base from superannuation funds into the single and scale advice and pla...
FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....
Claims of a need for liquidity in portfolios hide planner ignorance on alternative investments and tendency to churn. ...
The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...
Planners will be spoilt for choice as the battle for financial planning software moves from the desktop to the cloud, with new entrant OpenWealth set to launch an online ...
Accounting bodies claim Government’s concessions to planners on TASA are a negative outcome for consumers....
Former PIS managing director Robbie Bennetts has signed up with Beacon Financial Group, the entity formed by the merger of The Financial Link Group and Titanium Group and...
Financial planners are being stymied by anti-money laundering laws and the onerous administration tasks involved in transferring client funds from one term deposit to ano...
Financial planners are required by regulation to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, but Oscar Martinis writes that notwithstanding the increasing cost of premiums, pl...
CPA and ICAA argue against any delay to TASA implementation, claiming it will generate consumer uncertainty....
FPA points to lack of regulatory information as reason for planner unpreparedness for FOFA. ...
The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....
Investing in equities offshore has for the past few years been a quick way to add some negatives to a balance sheet, and even the most hardened investors found the going ...
FPA and AFA make last-ditch call for financial planner elements of TASA bill to be removed to allow appropriate review....
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,...