The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) response to the Commonwealth Bank financial planning fallout has elicited a scathing retort from the Association of Independent...
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has signed memoranda of understanding (MOU) with Korea to foster financial services trade and investment between Australia and Korea....
The FSC says the Government’s FOFA changes announcement means its time to end the scare-mongering. ...
The Fair Work Commission has formally acknowledged that its default fund selection process has been suspended....
The FSC has won its Federal Court case challenging the make-up of the FWC’s expert superannuation panel....
Lawyers representing the Financial Services Council have asked the FWC president, Justice Iain Ross, to clarify his intentions on the expert panel selecting default funds...
The controversial Federal Court dispute between the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Fair Work Commission (FWC) may be defused by a letter from FWC president, Jus...
Provisions to increase the age at which Australians can access their superannuation are being supported by the Financial Service Council, but only if early access arrange...
The FSC claims the cost of providing financial advice has risen 33 per cent post-FOFA and the Government’s amendments will reduce this by a third....
FSC argues that Government should lift the super preservation age in line with lifting the pension age....
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed AMP group executive insurance and superannuation Pauline Blight-Johnston to its board....
In the rush to put money in superannuation, other investment vehicles with concessionary tax benefits have been overlooked. Income bonds have become one of the forgotten ...
The Budget has a slap at default fund processes, cutting funding to modern awards....
The Department of Employment has acknowledged that no provision has been made for communicating default fund outcomes to employers....
The FSC has fulfilled its threat to take the FWC to court challenging the constitution of its expert panel in the default super process....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...