The Financial Planning Association of Australia has welcomed the announcement by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority about proposed changes to its funding model...
Financial planning remains a male-dominated industry and women are held back by fear from making job moves to senior appointments....
The latest proposal suggested by the financial advice industry is to move to one focused on principle-based legislation and for changes to the Corporations Act, writes La...
Renaming ‘general advice’ and revising the test for a sophisticated investors are among changes proposed by the Financial Planning Association of Australia to ease the bu...
As advisers exit the industry, the number of Certified Financial Planners in Australia has declined by 4% but figures globally have now passed 200,000....
The examples of failed managed investment schemes have reopened the question around the Government’s proposed model for a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, writes Oksan...
Following the release of the Senate Economic Legislation Committee’s Compensation Scheme of Last Resort report, the Financial Planning Association of Australia is once ag...
Having completed their educational qualifications, those advisers who remain in the industry are reporting being “run off their feet” with new clients....
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,...