SPAA is urging SMSFs to get quality advice after the ATO announced it would increase its monitoring of the sector. ...

The concept of trust in financial planning has reached a critical juncture, writes Geoff Rimmer, and only bold measures will restore it. ...

An independent expert will monitor the way PIS gives financial advice for the next nine months to ensure the group meets the standards set out in the Enforceable Undertak...

The chairman of the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC laments that its greatest successes appear to have occurred after the damage has already been done....

Industry super funds appear to be making desperate attempts to retain those members most likely to break away and set up a self-managed super fund, as Damon Taylor report...

Difficulties in securing finance will deplete independent planner space....

ASIC signals it will look to the most senior levels when it detects a bad compliance culture....

There are divergent views, but Barry Lambert believes licensing may mean planners will have to figure out how to stop accountants from taking their clients....

SPAA welcomes changes to the tax treatment of non-reversionary pensions....

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

The so-called “fifth pillar” of Australia’s banking sector, AMP, now owns the two biggest dealer groups in Australia....

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

Count founder Barry Lambert predicts in Money Management that commercial reality and the FOFA changes will precipitate the disappearance of more AFSLs....

A new ICAA white paper argues the case for a new Government to recognise the ability of accountants to rebuild community trust in the financial services industry....