AFA

Policy & Regulation

Financial planners are set to maintain their lobbying against the Government's FOFA proposals....

Editorial

Government and financial planners face FOFA stalemate

The Government's pursuit of its FOFA reforms has degenerated into trench warfare, with the financial planning industry 'digging in' to fight the changes. ...

Policy & Regulation

Shorten asked to 'please explain' on FOFA

The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....

Policy & Regulation

Planners resigned to FOFA

Many financial planners have already decided that the legislation that emerges from the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will be unacceptable and ru...

Editorial

FOFA's air of inevitability

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

Editorial

Hoping for the best from FOFA but expecting the worst

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

Policy & Regulation

Valuations head down on FOFA worries

The policy uncertainty surrounding the Federal Government's proposed Future of Financial Advice changes appear to have contributed to wiping up to 15 per cent off the val...

Financial planning

Shorten not convinced of negative opt-in impact

Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten has told financial planners they haven't managed to convince him the introduction of a two-year opt-in requirement would "beat th...

Financial planning

Adviser voices heard in Canberra

The AFA's grassroots campaign to lobby politicians over their concerns relating to the Governments FOFA reforms is working, according to the AFA....

Financial planning

Soft dollar bans could affect marketing

While the soft dollar spotlight has been firmly shone on all-expenses paid trips and lavish gifts given to financial advisers, the Treasury's proposed ban on these paymen...

Financial planning

Guardian partners with AFA

Suncorp-owned dealer group Guardian Financial Planning has formed a partnership with the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), joining the AFA's Licensee Partnership P...

Financial planning

Advisers and insurance industry fail in demonstrating value

Financial advisers and the life insurance industry have failed in communicating the value of life cover to the majority of Australians and potential clients, new research...

Editorial

FOFA needs a balanced approach

The Government needs to consider all sides of the debate as it prepares to release the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation, writes Mike Taylor....

Editorial

Independents’ critical FOFA roles underscored

The Opposition spokesman on Financial Services, Senator Mathias Cormann, unquestionably hit a strong note with financial planners when he late last month told an Associat...

Financial planning

FOFA - uncertainty is the only certainty

The Government's final outline of its Future of Financial Advice proposals has raised as many questions as it has answered, with participants in a <i>Money Management</i>...