Opposition Financial Services spokesman Mathias Cormann has paid credit to the Association of Financial Advisers's role in FOFA negotiations and reiterated his opposition...
The same timing problems which impacted FOFA are now impacting MySuper....
Younger financial planners are snapping up C & D client lists from established practices and treating them as a referral source, according to NAB Financial Planner Bankin...
The industry is still waiting on an announcement from the Government following the decision to remove the accountants' exemption on providing advice on SMSFs as part of F...
With the FOFA, Stronger Super and MySuper reforms finally taking shape, the financial services industry has a clearer picture of what the future holds, writes Chris Kenne...
Shadforth Financial Group is in talks with platform providers and fund managers to offer low-cost enhanced asset class (EAC) investment options to low-value clients....
With the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services having last week handed down its final report on the collapse of Trio Capital, it is worth r...
New draft Future of Financial Advice regulations released yesterday by Treasury clarify grandfathering arrangements, fee arrangements and conflicted remuneration....
Financial advisers must better communicate the message of Australia's strong financials and get back to the business of providing quality education and understanding to c...
Two of the Coalition's most senior senators, Mathias Cormann and Arthur Sinodinos, will on Friday outline the Federal Opposition's policy approaches at an Association of ...
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten and regulators to address Financial Services Council's August national conference on the Gold Coast....
The newly released draft FOFA regulations indicate all financial contracts entered into prior to the application date of new regulations will be grandfathered....
AIA Australia launches product changes which help financial planners deliver insurance within superannuation....
AMPFS boss says the Financial Planning Association's control of CFP designation hands it an advantage....
Until the final wording of the Future of Financial Advice legislation is released, it is impossible to assess what the opt-in agreements have actually achieved for financ...
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,...