Financial Services Guides

Financial planning

FAAA embraces ASIC’s ‘workable’ FSG solution

ASIC’s relief measures enabling advisers to rely on website disclosure information instead of providing a Financial Services Guide has been welcomed by the industry assoc...

Financial planning

Most advisers to declare 'not independent'

Only 2% of advisers and advice firms can label themselves as “independent’, meaning most will be subject to the new Financial Services Guides disclosure obligations....

Financial planning

Intra-fund advice has created advice unfairness

A West Australian adviser has told the Federal Treasury that industry funds have been allowed to hide behind intra-fund advice and to create an environment that favours o...

Financial planning

Are intra-fund advisers really tied agents?

A financial planning principal has questioned whether salaried advisers employed by industry funds to provide intra-fund advice are really just a modern version of the ol...