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...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) question the validity of research commissioned by a party with a vested interest....
The financial planning industry is remaining vigilant despite Government assurances on FOFA bills' debate timing....
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has joined the push for the Government to make advice fees tax deductible while continuing to press its case for the restricted u...
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...
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...
ASIC has released highly preliminary figures from its financial planning shadow shop exercise at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) hearing, having given only 24 hou...
ASIC has released highly preliminary figures from its financial planning shadow shop exercise at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) hearing, having given only 24 hou...
The FPA has expressed concern at the FOFA process and how certain decisions such as those imposing fee disclosure and opt-in were made....
The Federal Opposition says the Productivity Commission's review of default funds under modern awards need not take all year and that the MySuper legislation should be am...
The FPA has warned the Parliamentary Joint Committee the FOFA bills, as drafted, will fail to meet the objectives of better and more accessible financial advice....
The passing of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has paved the way for an increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG)....
Securitor, one of BT Financial Group's major dealer groups with 450 advisers, has joined the Association of Financial Advisers....
Changes to the delivery of intra-fund financial advice preclude recommendations to consolidate superannuation accounts or move from one fund to another, but still fall sh...
As debate heats up over the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) proposed educational guidelines for financial advisers, training providers argue t...
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,...