As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...
FSC calls for tax and policy certainty on infrastructure investment while pointing to benefits of scale evolving out of super fund consolidation....
The release of draft amendments to FOFA have been welcomed but representative bodies still to pick through the details...
Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...
Throughout 2013, ASIC executives repeatedly used AAA Financial Intelligence as an example of how not to run a financial planning dealer group....
The Federal Government has appointed outgoing AMP CEO Craig Dunn to the financial system inquiry panel, along with others from the business and academic community....
Federal Government set to deliver pre-election promises with raft of proposed FOFA amendments including grandfathering and opt-in changes....
Sinodinos says industry funds who claim to have out-performed their retail peers should have nothing to fear from a more competitive environment....
A new survey has revealed narrow majority support for making super funds subject to the same rules as publicly-listed companies....
FSC points to cross-border flows report to renew calls for Investment Manager Regime implementation....
Industry funds may be obliged to appoint a majority of independent directors....
Sinodinos signals the Government’s approach to FOFA will be made public before Christmas....
Dealer group head calls for rigorous consultations before FOS moves to lift fees....
FOS is proposing to more than double its maximum membership fee to $25,000. ...
Industry bodies call into question Rice Warner research on costs of SMSFs....
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,...