FOFA

Financial planning

ASIC has been placed on notice to adopt a more independent stance in the wake of the regulator having presented a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) with preliminary dat...

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Financial planning

OnePath has launched an online application called OneView Life, which allows advisers to see client and policy information for their inforce books in real time....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Chartered Accountants has urged the Government to move on the deductibility of financial advice in the May Budget....

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Financial planning

OnePath has launched an online application called OneView Life, which allows advisers to see client and policy information for their inforce books in real time....

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Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups will need to deliver greater value for money in their product and service offerings in order to stay competitive in a new legislative env...

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Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups will need to deliver greater value for money in their product and service offerings in order to stay competitive in a new legislative env...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor reports that a number of submissions filed with the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills have revealed a serious disconnect between what the...

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) believes the weight of evidence presented to the PJC is enough to get FOFA back on track....

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Policy & Regulation

The servicing of A and B clients will dominate and financial planners will be kidding themselves if they believe they can adequately service unduly large client books in ...

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Financial planning

Bryan Ashenden tries to find a resemblance between the changes FOFA will bring to the financial advice industry and Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution....

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Editorial

2012 will be the year of the savvy consumer - and the financial services industry is preparing for this new trend, writes Jim Minto....

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Financial planning

ASIC's use of preliminary financial planning shadow shopping data during PJC evidence earns Coalition rebuke....

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Policy & Regulation

ASFA does not support further delays to the implementation of the FOFA reforms while a regulatory impact study is completed....

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Financial planning

ASIC's use of preliminary financial planning shadow shopping data during PJC evidence earns Coalition rebuke....

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Financial planning

The Corporate Superannuation Specialists Association has cited research backing its concerns around the provision of financial advice in MySuper funds....

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