The Government’s introduction of the legislation necessary to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ coincided with the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, r...
APESB scheduled to deal with amended APES 230 approach on Friday....
Mortgage Choice Financial Planning is trialing a new charging model for its financial planning services, which will involve clients being presented with a pricing menu....
Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...
Two bodies will soon regulate financial planners - a serious concern to the FPA....
It would seem that in the mind of the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, accountants need to shoulder none of the responsibility for investors being burned by...
In what promises to be one of the most comprehensive debates around the shape of the financial planning industry in a Federal election year, Money Management has joined w...
This week’s APESB board meeting looms as a crucial moment in the APES 230 debate....
It is to be hoped that the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has noted the capacity of the financial planning industry to do good and to rally to the needs o...
AFA canvasses concept that two-tiered code of conduct with ethics and providing good advice is more important than obviating opt-in....
The Federal Government has reaffirmed its intention to leave intra-fund advice out of the FOFA adviser charging regime....
As the Financial Planning Association (FPA) opens enrolments for its 2013 Certified Financial Planner (CFP) program, chief executive Mark Rantall says the year ahead look...
The financial planning industry has welcomed ASIC's guidance on fee disclosure, though some argue it should have applied only to new clients....
Mike Taylor writes that FOFA is already beginning to change the shape and texture of the financial planning industry – something likely to be reflected in a rash of annou...
ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues that 2013 is the dawn of a new era for superannuation, and that the industry will cater to those who own it – the members....
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,...