The Financial Services Council has confirmed transitional arrangements on volume rebates involving the grandfathering of those existing before 30 June, 2012....
Care needs to be taken in mandating a 'best interest' or fiduciary-like duty, because it would imply that one did not already exist, according to Argyle Lawyers principal...
The FPA has outlined concerns about opt-in provisions and insurance bans within super outlined in the Government's Future of Financial Advice reforms....
The Federal Government’s Future of Financial Advice reforms have banned all risk commissions in super and volume rebates at the same time as imposing a two-year opt-in on...
If the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, is wise, he will closely examine his first Budget as a part of a Rudd Labor Government and the problems that administration created by needl...
New AFA research has confirmed FOFA risks escalating Australia's underinsurance problems....
The Treasury's two 'best interest' duty options, offered up to the Future of Financial Advice Peak Consultation Group for discussion, have been met with a mixed response....
Current default compensation arrangements for retail clients rely largely on professional indemnity insurance, and provide no guarantee that retail clients will be able t...
The Future of Financial Advice changes may be dominating the attention of the financial services industry but Richard Gilbert points out that the Government has a great d...
Money Management recently hosted a roundtable about the effects of the Government’s proposed Future of Financial Advice reforms. The key concern of those present wa...
The Federal Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes carry with them the genuine risk of benefiting the big banks, institutions and industry funds at the ex...
The number of legislative and regulatory changes for the financial planning industry coming through in the next couple of years could be too burdensome and distracting fo...
Perceptions exist that the industry super funds have succeeded in having the Government stack the cards against financial planners. Mike Taylor writes it is up to the Ass...
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has appointed Wealth Enhancers financial adviser Sarah Riegelhuth to chair its 2011-2012 GenXt Committee....
With the Government promising to increase education requirements for financial planners through its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms package, the AMP Horizons Ac...
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,...