The Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts of interest principles do not go far enough to ensure compliant advice, according to Australian Securities and Investme...

Despite one in five financial planners falling foul of the corporate regulator in its latest shadow shopping exercise, and the resulting negative coverage in the mainstre...

Financial planners have received another bad rap from the corporate regulator, with its latest shadow shopping report concluding that close to one in five advisers gave u...

Australia’s biggest dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has endorsed the Financial Planning Association’s principles on conflicts of interest by forming a taskforce to ...

Some of Australia’s biggest dealer groups have given the Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts principles the thumbs up, but not all expect the initiative to mar...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is cracking down on conflicts of interest and the use of commissions to improve the profile of the industry, and increasingly con...

The FPA will release the final version of its principles to manage conflicts of interest on the day before chief executive Kerrie Kelly leaves her post....

The Financial Planning Association has confirmed that it is investigating six complaints about its members in relation to the failed Westpoint group....

The corporate regulator remains enthusiastic about creating additional model Statements of Advice (SOAs), despite only a “mutedly positive” response to the initiative fro...

The desire to spend now, repay later, has never been stronger in the Australian psyche. Credit card balances have never been higher and other forms of credit are at equal...

The ACA has called for greater prudential control over unsecured investments following the winding up of two Westpoint mezzanine finance companies, and warned investors o...

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...

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has appointed two independent board directors to replace former chairman Kathryn Greiner and David Elsum, who resign...

The AIOFP has criticised the FPA’s comments last week that investors, not planners, were responsible for money lost through investments in Westpoint-associated products, ...