The Financial Planning Association has launched a new consumer website called FPA Difference as part of Financial Planning Week, which ends this coming Sunday....

Despite FOFA reforms now being imminent, there are several regrettable reasons many businesses are using to delay addressing the changes, according to a paper from PwC an...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....

ASIC has released a consultation paper outlining new requirements for managing conflicts of interest in relation to proof of debt schemes....

ASIC's recent scaled advice consultation paper does a fantastic job of clarifying how scaled advice will work in practice but leaves one significant gap, according to MyA...

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Lion Advantage and banned its chief executive David Hickie from providing financial services for two years...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued guidance to promoters of 'crowd funding' in order to provide clarity on arrangements that may fall ...

ASIC targets securities dealers over mis-selling and inadequate advice....

ASIC signals it will apply the same rules to both scaled and holistic advice....

The financial services regulator has identified conflicts of interest present in asset consultant business models, which it said needed to be managed properly....

Opposition puts regulators and industry funds on notice referencing parliamentary accountability and competitive neutrality....

ASIC cancels credit licence and warns on need for EDR scheme membership....

Financial planning groups are restructuring salary models to make sure their planners are rewarded after the ban on commissions officially comes in on 1 July 2013....

Claims that SMSFs have no recourse against fraud and theft are simply not true, according to SPAA....