Industry Super Australia blames the ‘banks’ for the FSC’s moves to challenge the FWC on its default fund review process....
ISA creates submission to the Productivity Commission advocating the inverted bid model for infrastructure financing in response to the Commission’s inquiry draft report....
Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...
It would be very easy to have read the announcement by the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, that he was pausing the FOFA change process as some sort of a vi...
Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...
Australia’s highly concentrated banking system is “choking competition” and needs to be opened up to superannuation-holding rivals, according to Industry Super Australia....
ISA chief executive David Whiteley calls for Government’s pause to be used to develop constructive consensus on FOFA....
The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...
Minister puts brakes on both legislative and regulatory amendments to FOFA but action is well received. ...
The FSC has obtained legal advice from a Senior Counsel confirming the Government’s FOFA changes will not undermine client best interest or consumer protections....
AFA has accused ISA of hypocrisy for not making its FOFA submission publicly available, despite its loud calls for transparency....
Both the ISA and ASFA have welcomed the Productivity Commission’s interim report on private infrastructure funding....
Based on recent media coverage, it would be easy to believe that the Abbott Government was quite recklessly setting about dismantling all the consumer protections contain...
New legal advice obtained by ISA states planners will be able to satisfy the best interests duty without actually acting in the best interests of the client. ...
In case financial planners have not noticed, the Abbott Government’s moves to change FOFA, either by regulation or legislative amendment, has been the subject of a concer...
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...