How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...

Amid concern and confusion around how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission yearly opt-in and fee disclosure will work, adviser groups are urging flexibili...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been accused of exceeding its legislative remit with a resulting detriment to financial advisers....

With financial planning groups meeting with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority today, the Association of Financial Advisers has sent a message that issu...

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority of unilaterally seeking to rewrite the law and thereby placing 57% ...

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

The findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission cannot be left to go unchallenged in circumstances where the outcome was far from perfect and, in some circumstan...

The 'weaponisation of compliance' is bringing up wider problems with licensees, not just a few individual bad apples. ...

Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...

WealthO2 has appointed Phil Anderson as national business development manager to meet growing demand for the company’s adviser platform alternative....

As advisers battle with the effects of the Banking Royal Commission, education reforms, the banks exiting wealth, and changes to business structures, Hannah Wootton finds...

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, of a failure to acknowledge the value of advice and a failure to understand the confl...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has seemingly omitted the ‘Graduate Outcome Statements’, referred to in FPS002 Program and Provider Accreditation Pol...

While the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s updated standards show some positives, advisers are still going to be impacted by the regulator’s arbitrary d...