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Editorial

Mike Taylor reports that the likelihood of a bipartisan report and meaningful amendments emerging from the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills is becom...

Policy & Regulation

FPA laments confusing FOFA process

The FPA has expressed concern at the FOFA process and how certain decisions such as those imposing fee disclosure and opt-in were made....

Policy & Regulation

FPA members better prepared for FOFA, survey says

Members of the Financial Planning Association are more prepared to meet the changes required by the Government's Future of Financial Advice changes....

Financial planning

FPA reiterates financial planner professionalism push

<b>Updated:</b> The Financial Planning Association has pointed to a future in which there are no Australian Securities and Investments Commission bannings of professional...

Editorial

FOFA impasse unlikely to be resolved

Much attention has been directed towards the manner in which a Parliamentary Joint Committee will handle the Government's Future of Financial Advice legislation but, as M...

Policy & Regulation

Independents offer less certainty on FOFA

Financial planners have renewed their lobbying efforts on FOFA - but the key independents are playing their cards very close to the chests....

Policy & Regulation

Roundtable acknowledges Industry Super Network's influence on FOFA

A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....

Financial planning

Financial planners question ISN advertising blitz

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has questioned the legitimacy of a television advertising blitz by industry superannu...

Superannuation

Stronger Super - both good and bad

The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....

Financial planning

Buy-back contracts under scrutiny

Despite moves in the industry to remove perceived conflicts of interest, questions still remain about 'buyer of last resort' (BOLR) contracts between dealer groups and th...

Financial planning

FPA to establish 'mark of trust'

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall cites advertising campaign as underscoring planners from 'free riders'....

Editorial

Who dares wins in FOFA lobbying games

Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...

Financial planning

CFP qualification's stringent requirements will raise industry standard: FPA

The growing number of financial planners undertaking the Certified Financial Planning (CFP) accreditation will lift the standard of the advice industry as a whole, accord...