Financial advisers should not be unnecessarily entangled by the Government’s new insurance claims handling legislative framework just because they are taking on a new cli...
The Financial Planning Association has leveraged the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s affordable advice review to drive home its policy for financial ad...
Although the removal of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is a huge victory for many in the industry who spent the last few years fighting for reform, ...
The Federal Government has made at least some concessions to financial advisers with new legislation at least simplifying some elements of fee disclosure while making cle...
The FPA is on a recruitment drive among former members and new members with whom it has had contact offering a discount of $506 for those wanting to become Associate Memb...
Diana D’Ambra has been appointed as an additional director and will chair the board audit and risk committee....
Advisers providing "strategic advice” or financial coaching should be subject to the same regulatory obligations as other advisers, according to the Financial Planning As...
The Financial Planning Association is pointing to the proposed Single Disciplinary Body as the answer for delivering greater regulatory simplicity for financial tax advis...
WA-based HPH Solutions has picked up two awards, as the annually presented award reaches its eighth year. ...
The industry is still a “boy’s club” and it will come at the expense of advice that better suits the needs of female clients....
The Government’s Retirement Income Review has been welcomed but the industry has differing views on the superannuation guarantee increase and accessing home equity to fun...
The volume of regulatory change means it is becoming impossible to do business as a financial planner using old technology and old ways of operation, according to the Fin...
The widespread general criticism of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s latest efforts around code of conduct guidance should be the catalyst for the G...
Clarity around Standard 3 of the financial adviser code of ethics is vital and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority needs to stop playing ‘semantic games’...
The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...
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,...