Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, declares the Government is still working to agree more “non-contentious” FOFA refinements....
The Government is intent on proceeding with changes to superannaution fund governance to bring them into line with publicly-listed companies....
Both educational qualifications and professional association membership will be later additions to the Government’s financial planner register....
The Australian Labor Party has now made it clear that FOFA is a totem policy issue and that it will not be relenting in resisting any Government changes. ...
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....
Financial planners are being urged to take a ‘financial services oath’ to uphold integrity in the profession, by the Australian Labor Party....
Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...
Planners are accused of hanging on to horse and cart in their resistance to FOFA changes....
New research has revealed planning profits were being eroded by FOFA well before the Senate’s disallowance of the Government’s changes....
Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann says the Government remains committed to its FOFA changes....
The actions of one senator reversing their support for the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will undermine competition in the advice sector, Synchro...
Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...
FPA’s outgoing chairman, Matthew Rowe, says the FPA won’t seek to defend the indefensible where bad advice is concerned....
Fewer Australians will be able to afford to obtain financial advice following the Senate’s decision to disallow the Government Future of Financial Advice regulations, the...
The FPA has urged a facilitative approach from ASIC as planners seek to comply with the Senate imposed FOFA reversal....
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,...