The recent flurry of opinions around making financial planners accountable to the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) only continues to fuel more flawed arguments that are not ...
Super funds warned to more closely monitor intrafund advice outsourced to planning firms....
Investors cautioned against using ETFs to gain exposure to emerging markets....
Former Commonwealth Financial Planning executive manager, Nathan Stanton, will head up Western Pacific Financial Group - a dealer group owned by SFG Australia....
FSC senior adviser, Cecilia Storniolo has pointed to the differences in treatment between accountants and planners on TASA....
AFA chief executive, Brad Fox says advice firms are being placed under pressure by the continuing regulatory unknowns around FOFA....
The mortgage broking industry appears to have created a more aggressive push into the ever-expanding SMSF segment. ...
BGL Corporate Solutions enters into partnership with RP Data to offer automated property data to SMSFs....
Take-over target, Trust Company, has booked a solid profit and points to promising outlook. ...
With ASIC delaying its work on a financial planner training framework, progress on raising the bar on education seems to be stuck in limbo, writes Tim Stewart....
Financial planners wishing to keep providing advice in areas such as superannuation after 1 July will have to complete a course approved by the Taxation Practitioners Boa...
Fabio Ferro joins Wealth Enhancers as portfolio manager....
The FPA argues that transitional issues and other factors justify delaying implementation of the Tax Agent Services Act until post-election. ...
Generation X and Y high net worth clients require a different value proposition approach from financial advisers, according to Experience Wealth Advice managing director ...
A Melbourne adviser who placed close to $700,000 of client money in a failed investment scheme is charged with inappropriate advice....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....