ASFA’s chief executive officer Philippa Smith has welcomed the superannuation proposals in last month’s Federal Budget as “radical, bold and far reaching”, while calling ...
While financial planning software hardly sounds like an area you would expect to find participants slugging it out, that’s exactly what is happening. It’s proving to be a...
FICS has reported a considerable reduction in consumer complaints against financial services providers....
A new report by Melbourne University attacking timber managed investment schemes has been described as “seriously flawed” by the industry....
Many accountants are unaware of what constitutes unlicensed advice, meaning they are often treading a fine line between what they can and can’t discuss, according to thei...
The Government hopes the current round of refinements to Financial Services Reform (FSR), which it plans to make law by December 2006, will finalise the regulations and o...
The FPA has welcomed a reported increase in the number of breach of licence notifications received by the corporate regulator from the financial services industry....
Banning exit fees on super funds and restricting statements of advice to less than four pages will form part of Labor’s new financial services policy platform to be relea...
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Jeffrey Lucy has defended the regulator’s enforcement of financial services laws after its shadow shoppin...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) believes the results of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) most recent Shadow Shopping survey reflect ...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...