FUTURE OF FINANCIAL ADVICE

Policy & Regulation

A Perth based financial planner has begun a campaign to seek an apology from independent senator Jackie Lambie after she labelled financial advisers as ‘unscrupulous’....

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Financial planning

The major financial planning groups and companies are continuing to lobby for FOFA changes, but planners are being urged to accept the law as it currently stands....

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Financial planning

Financial planners are being urged to take a ‘financial services oath’ to uphold integrity in the profession, by the Australian Labor Party....

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Financial planning

New research has revealed planning profits were being eroded by FOFA well before the Senate’s disallowance of the Government’s changes....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has voted down the amendments to FOFA after protracted debate and procedural wrangling which occupied most of yesterday’s sitting time....

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Policy & Regulation

Efforts to pass a motion in the Federal Senate to disallow FOFA amendments have stalled for the time being after the Federal Government blocked a vote on the motion....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA has denounced efforts in the Senate to disallow amendments to FOFA predicting changes will automatically place advisers in breach of the law....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition will push to disallow the FOFA amendments in the Senate after Labor Senator Sam Dastyari stated it had secured the numbers to win a vote on the mat...

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Financial planning

Instead of targeting commissions for life insurance products, policy reforms should revisit conflicted remuneration, which hasn’t been properly handled by FOFA, Chan & Na...

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Funds management

The corporate regulator will consider model portfolios as a suitable investment under best interest duties if they do not adopt mechanistic processes on selecting assets ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

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Financial planning

ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....

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Financial planning

ASIC reports it has refused applications for relief including one from a planner who requested the use of the word ‘independent’ to describe their practice....

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Financial planning

The Government's proposed registry of financial advisers will provide transparency without the costs associated with regulation the Minister for Finance and acting Deputy...

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Financial planning

The financial services sector still lacks regulation that requires advisers to identify when they are providing independent advice and when they are selling products, a l...

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