The financial planning industry has undergone some momentous changes in the last few years and it’s critical the planners respond to the changing environment at the same ...
The Commonwealth Bank has moved to lift education standards for planners, supervisors and managers of planners....
The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....
The interim report of the Financial Systems Inquiry has pointed to higher educational standards for planners, a national exam regime and tougher powers for ASIC....
As scathing as the Senate Committee’s report into ASIC’s handling of the Commonwealth Financial Planning enforceable undertaking may have been, the answer does not lie in...
Reports suggest the Labor Opposition will move to establish another Senate Committee inquiry into financial planning....
Inaugural Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award winner, Erin Shields, plans to continue along the path by the late ‘First Lady of financial planning’....
The BFP claims a structural flaw has allowed banks, insurers and super funds to dress up product sales as advice....
Providing regulatory backing for the separation of product sales from advice should be welcomed by the broader financial planning community....
The Minister for Finance and acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann has cautioned against a one size fits all approach to the advice regulatory settings....
The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....
FPA uses Comm FP’s continuing troubles to restate case for separating product from advice....
When Money Management’s sister publication, Super Review, conducted a Post-Retirement and Ageing Forum in Sydney, it served to underline why the superannuation sector nee...
FPA honours ‘first lady of financial planning’, Gwen Fletcher, by giving her name to a CFP-related award...
Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...
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,...