From 1 July this year, planners will have to divide their client base into pre-FOFA and post-FOFA clients, according to Madison Financial Group head of compliance Cheyenn...
With its merger with Premium Investors completed, WAM Capital has moved to terminate Premium's IM arrangement with Treasury Group....
Infocus Group founder Darren Steinhardt will assume the role of chairman following the departure of Barrie Adams at the company's December board meeting....
Some SMSF compliance rules are discriminatory, lack logic and are unnecessary, according to Chan & Naylor's Ken Raiss....
2012 will stand as a watershed year for the Australian financial planning industry – the year during which the various elements of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) l...
Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...
Older planners who have been deferring their retirement plans are putting their businesses up for sale as markets improve, according to Forte Asset Solutions director Ste...
The launch of a national curriculum for financial planning degrees by the Financial Planning Education Council was a major win for the industry in 2012....
The Financial Planning Association’s ‘side deal’ with the Industry Super Network on FOFA drew plenty of flack from many key industry figures....
The Financial Services Council's position on life insurance churn proved controversial, attracting criticism from the likes of Synchron's Don Trapnell....
Plan B's Andrew Black could be forgiven for thinking he is being followed by IOOF in the wake of its acquisition of the dealer group....
Chief executive officer of ANZ-owned dealer group RI Advice, Paul Campbell, has left the group for family reasons, the company has announced....
ASIC has outlined its regulatory approach on the key questions of best interests and scaled advice, including the "safe harbour" elements....
Grandfathering provisions in the FOFA legislation risk encouraging complacency in the advice industry, according to van Eyk Advice national practice manager Tony Zulli....
Over 80 per cent of financial services chief executives believe the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will drive up the cost of operating a financial advisory net...
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,...