Seaview Consulting believes planning firms can translate the FOFA changes into a business opportunity....
ASIC signals it will look to the most senior levels when it detects a bad compliance culture....
There are divergent views, but Barry Lambert believes licensing may mean planners will have to figure out how to stop accountants from taking their clients....
Count founder Barry Lambert predicts in Money Management that commercial reality and the FOFA changes will precipitate the disappearance of more AFSLs....
The legislation enshrining the term 'financial planner/adviser' will only become law if the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, names a later election date. ...
The legislation to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ has failed to make it into the Senate but the FPA has not given up....
ASIC points to conflicted, commission-driven culture at Commonwealth Financial Planning five years ago....
The FPA has been foremost in welcoming the Coalition’s breakthrough on the TASA legislation delivering planners a further 12 months’ exemption. ...
ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...
Planners will get a further 12 months relief on TASA changes as part of Government concessions to Coalition on the legislation. ...
Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...
ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...