Anyone who was surprised by the official line of IFSA on the question of intra-fund advice has now had a reality check....
Few financial planners appear to be fully embracing the Financial Planning Association's latest short-form Statement of Advice sample despite high praise for the FPA lead...
Estate planning may not be the exclusive domain of the financial planner, but there are tremendous opportunities for them to play a leadership role. CORRINA JACK reports....
Unprofessional advice can be put down to inadequate training, poor supervision, product complexity, ineffective research, product biases and association rather than remun...
The Financial Planning Association has responded to a decision by Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) not to use its Continuing Education assess...
ComCorp has acquired a stake in the financial planning practice headed by the chair of the Financial Planning Association, Julie Berry....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued class order relief that will allow super fund members to receive advice from their fund....
The Financial Planning Association is canvassing its members on their exposure to failed agribusiness managers Great Southern and Timbercorp....
CPA Australia has warned that the way planners are remunerated should be left to the industry to determine because governments should not set markets....
The UK's Financial Services Authority has moved to ban commission payments by 2012, a move echoing the changes taking place in the Australian financial services industry....
The various committees within the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have outlined their policy priorities for the 2009-10 financial year. The following...
The industry funds campaign against financial planners' commissions may benefit the retail funds sector, writes Robert Keavney....
Large financial services institutions, with the resources available to present a strong lobbying front, may dominate the current parliamentary inquiry into the industry, ...
The Association of Financial Advisers has welcomed the exclusion of insurance from the Investment and Financial Services Association's new superannuation charter....
Consistent with industry moves to phase out commission-based remuneration models for financial planners, a recent report shows advisers have increasingly opted for fee-fo...
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,...