The Code Monitoring Authority established by the major financial planning associations will be ready to roll if, and when, it gains sign-off from the Australian Securitie...
The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has again stopped short of giving any undertaking on ex...
The chief executive of CountPlus and former Financial Planning Association chair, Matthew Rowe, has resigned from the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics ...
Mike Taylor writes that the Australian financial advice industry is embarking on a transition which will be completed in 2024 with the result that it will be very differe...
Australians spend $19.8 billion each year buying presents for friends, family and even their pets according to research for this week’s Financial Planning Week. ...
The Financial Planning Association, Association of Financial Advisers and other professional association backers will today lodge a formal application with ASIC to operat...
The number of complaints received about individual firms should be available to financial services customers, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trus...
Unscrupulous employers who use their employees’ salary sacrifice superannuation contribution to reduce their superannuation guarantee obligations should be stopped, accor...
Intense lobbying by financial advisers has made Federal parliamentarians aware of their problems with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime but unce...
Most financial advisers believe financial advice should be tax deductible for clients, but a significant cohort believe it should not be tax deductible for advice around ...
The Financial Planning Association has confirmed the inevitable hit on the Certified Financial Planner designation resulting from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethi...
Financial advisers have been pointing to a document produced by the Financial Planning Association to reinforce their argument for a 12-month extension to the Financial A...
Just days out from the close of enrolments for the Financial Planning Association’s Certified Financial Planning designation, the organisation’s chief executive, Dante De...
Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...
The private contractual nature of Buyer of Last Resort arrangements has served to leave the major planning organisations on the sidelines as advisers see their pay-outs e...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...