FPA

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has criticised CHOICE’s partnership with the Big Bank Switch campaign, calling it hypocritical....

Superannuation

Super funds may lose class order relief

Super funds providing scaled advice to their members may soon be required to play by the same rules as the rest of the financial planning sector, as the corporate regulat...

Editorial

ISN's FOFA politicking finally attracts FPA criticism

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has finally called a spade a spade. It has accused the Industry Super Network (ISN) of using its political influence and the Futu...

Financial planning

Planning industry critical of ISN findings

Research used by the Industry Super Network (ISN) to support its advocacy of opt-in requirements has been panned by sections of the financial planning industry....

Policy & Regulation

Shorten faces more FOFA pressure

Financial planners are set to maintain their lobbying against the Government's FOFA proposals....

Financial planning

FPA backs planners, but questions ISN

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive, Mark Rantall, has pointed to the fact that many industry fund planners are members of the FPA....

Financial planning

FPA accuses ISN of killing planner competition

The FPA has accused the ISN of conducting a politically motivated campaign to drive competition out of the planning industry....

Policy & Regulation

Planners resigned to FOFA

Many financial planners have already decided that the legislation that emerges from the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will be unacceptable and ru...

Editorial

FOFA's air of inevitability

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

Editorial

Hoping for the best from FOFA but expecting the worst

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

Editorial

FOFA doing more harm than good?

Andrew Bailo takes a look at the issues arising from the Future of Financial Advice reforms, and concludes that the harmful changes outweigh the beneficial ones....

Financial planning

AMP launches university planning challenge

AMP has launched a financial planning-focused 'university challenge' aimed at giving university students greater access to the financial planning profession....

Financial planning

Financial services' steep learning curve

Education has become a buzzword in the financial services industry. Angela Faherty takes a look at what the industry is doing to improve standards. ...

Financial planning

Soft dollar bans could affect marketing

While the soft dollar spotlight has been firmly shone on all-expenses paid trips and lavish gifts given to financial advisers, the Treasury's proposed ban on these paymen...

Financial planning

Guardian partners with AFA

Suncorp-owned dealer group Guardian Financial Planning has formed a partnership with the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), joining the AFA's Licensee Partnership P...