In what appears to be a counter measure against the marketing campaign of industry superannuation funds, the Financial Planning Association has released its own ‘compare ...
The Financial Planning Association has called for changes to be made to the Financial Services Reform Act to ease the burden of compliance on financial planners and make ...
Members of the Financial Planning Association will be expected to separately disclose the cost of advice from the cost of an investment product to their clients from Janu...
A West Australian-based risk adviser has criticised the regulator in a submission to a Federal Parliamentary inquiry for an alleged bias in favour of industry funds in ta...
Financial services group First Capital Group will acquire 19.9 per cent of business and wealth creation coaching firm Empowernet Digital....
ASIC is currently examining whether further regulation is specifically needed for platforms, although at present it is unclear whether they should be defined as a product...
MLC has thrown its support behind the type of remuneration offered by the FPA advice-based fee model....
The FPA has welcomed a reported increase in the number of breach of licence notifications received by the corporate regulator from the financial services industry....
Australia is currently enjoying the best employment market in years with a low national unemployment rate. Job seekers in most markets have many choices and career option...
Shadow shoppers seeking financial planning advice for ASIC’s current shadow shopping campaign are no longer at large....
ASIC has delivered one of its most stinging criticisms of commission-based selling of financial planning advice, and called for dealer groups around the country to move t...
Just a few minutes ago, I finished speaking by phone with the son of a long-standing client. Our client’s son is 23 years of age and is in his first job, having completed...
The corporate regulator has announced a crack down on super advisers who recommend employers take employee funds out of corporate super and place them into commercial mas...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...