The FPA has called for the Government to allow alternative methods of paying for advice, in order to increase access to financial planning services....
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is calling for media to “get the facts right” after news outlets reported tax concessions on super would cost ...
Milana Pokrajac looks at some of the challenges and opportunities financial planners can expect over the next 12 months. ...
Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....
While there are many loose ends associated with the Future of Financial Advice regime, Mike Taylor writes that the Government should avoid allowing its Financial Systems ...
The Assistant Treasurer has denied claims by industry funds that changes to FOFA will water down consumer protection....
Industry Super Australia worries that changes to FOFA will bring conflicted remuneration back to financial advice....
FSC calls for tax and policy certainty on infrastructure investment while pointing to benefits of scale evolving out of super fund consolidation....
Industry Super Australia wants the Government’s FSR process to traverse conflicts of interest and the role of sales and advice personnel....
The AFA wants the Financial Systems Review to encompass both PI and the external dispute resolution processes....
The FPA has urged the Financial System Review to consider the role and benefits of Self-Regulatory Organisations in the financial sector....
FPA CEO Mark Rantall rebuffs ISA’s criticisms of Government’s FOFA amendments....
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will take over the running of the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House in a bid to reduce the compliance burden employers fac...
Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...
The Coalition signaled early that one of its first priorities if it won Government at the 2013 Federal Election would be 'Son of Wallis' – essentially an update of the Fi...
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,...