The Minister for Finance and acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann has cautioned against a one size fits all approach to the advice regulatory settings....
The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....
Claims that the major banks are seeking the reintroduction sales commissions for financial advices and compulsory super, are misleading the Australian Bankers’ Associatio...
The FSC claims the cost of providing financial advice has risen 33 per cent post-FOFA and the Government’s amendments will reduce this by a third....
The AFA has restated its wariness about the general advice exemption at a Senate hearing. ...
The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....
Consumers face additional fees and charges of up to $530 million a year if the Federal Government backs proposals to reintroduce commissions, a report from Rice Warner re...
Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....
ISA chief executive, David Whiteley, has accused the major banks of lobbying for the return of sale commissions for financial advice....
The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....
FPA uses Comm FP’s continuing troubles to restate case for separating product from advice....
The Institute of Managed Account Providers will be telling planners about their options in a national roadshow starting in June. ...
With traditional asset choices no longer offering the portfolio diversification they once did for Australian investors, Alexander McNab makes the case for alternative ass...
Questions are being raised over financial advisers’ focus on traditional products, with a survey showing more than half of respondents viewed specialist risk as a priorit...
Despite the efforts of licensees to promote succession planning, only a fifth of financial planners have a comprehensive roadmap in place, a survey has revealed. ...
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,...