The Industry Super Network has produced a new document reinforcing its approach on annual opt-ins and an expansion of intra-fund advice....
ANZIIF warns that lifting the bar on financial planning qualifications may be an overreaction to having set it too low....
Financial planners will be closely watching the discussion and debate surrounding the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....
As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...
More financial planners may be getting their own Australian Financial Services Licences (AFSLs), but the real debate should be about fulfilling ongoing compliance obligat...
The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has put the brakes on its proposed reforms for accountants practising as financial planners....
Academic urges development of new tertiary-based minimum standards for financial planners....
AMP chief Craig Dunn has underscored the importance of financial planners in his company’s $14 billion acquisition of the Australian and New Zealand operations of l...
Financial planners should be licensed under the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) like any other industry that provides limited or other tax agent services, according to the ...
The possibility of a single professional association arose during several sessions at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) national conference, one of which included ...
Efficiency is key when it comes to choosing financial advice software, writes GEM Capital's Mark Draper....
Based on submissions of real Statements of Advice delivered to clients, dealer group Matrix Planning Solutions has awarded three financial planners with its Good Advice A...
The Board of the Financial Planning Association has proposed significant changes to the make-up of the association, which would see individual financial planners given pr...
Financial planners are at risk of being unintentionally caught out under the new credit licensing regime....
The majority of financial advisers believe RG 146 is an inadequate minimum entry standard and that a tertiary qualification requirement should be introduced, according to...
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,...