The Financial Planning Association has found itself in accord with industry funds in suggesting that early access to superannuation should be a last resort and something ...
The Tax Practitioners Board needs to explicitly acknowledge the sufficiency of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority CPD regime, according to the FPA....
Financial advisers are struggling to cope with the increased burden of the economic crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic....
The Financial Planning Association wants the Government to commission the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to monitor the escalating costs of practicing a...
The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....
The Financial Planning Association wants managers of advice licensees subjected to the same reference-checking protocols as advisers in circumstances where it says it has...
Licensees work hard for the stamping fees they are paid and should be entitled to keep them, according to Investment Collective managing director, David French....
The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...
The industry has now had four rounds of FASEA exams, but Chris Dastoor writes advisers – particularly those who have passed – are still as confused and unhappy about the ...
The financial planning profession is on the cusp of a major growth trajectory as planners and professional associations unite to secure its future, writes Dante De Gori....
One of the last remaining vestiges of commission-based remuneration, stamping fees, should be removed, according to the Financial Planning Association....
The Financial Services Council has backed MySuper members having access to once-off financial advice, rather than ongoing advice with ongoing fees....
The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, faces a fight from the financial planning industry as he seeks to move forward on implementing a Royal Commission recommendation banning t...
The Government should accept that if a client has signed a renewal notice with their financial adviser, that is more than enough proof of the client’s intentions, accordi...
The Government is wrong in its move to stop people from paying for financial advice from their MySuper accounts, according to the Financial Planning Association....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...