Shadow Minister for Superannuation Nick Sherry has called for more detail on the Government’s Budget superannuation changes before responding to the latest challenge from...
As part of the ongoing refinements to the Financial Services Reform Act, the Investment and Financial Services Association is calling for the shortening of Product Disclo...
Underlying hot topics like the commissions debate, Australia’s insurance gap and compliance is the need to boost consumer confidence and reinforce the value of advice, ac...
A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has found Australians in general still need to improve their levels of financial liter...
The Federal Government has released a revised version of its exposure draft of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Bill containing many amendments s...
Key elements of the financial services industry, including IFSA, have been negotiating with the Australian Consumers’ Association in a bid to develop a mutually acceptabl...
Despite the requirement by the FPA that their members fully comply with the ‘soft dollar code’ by January 1, 2005, benefit arrangements employed by advisory dealer groups...
Implementation of the Federal Budget superannuation initiatives will result in intense competition between fund managers to develop pension products and services to attra...
Shadow shopper has revealed a “surprisingly” low percentage of consumers received life insurance advice although, according to industry experts, the responsibility lies o...
Despite one in five financial planners falling foul of the corporate regulator in its latest shadow shopping exercise, and the resulting negative coverage in the mainstre...
The headhunter assigned to find the next chief executive for the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has dismissed concerns that Jo-Anne Bloch’s lack of direct involveme...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...