Amid the furore over a document purporting to be an agreement between the Financial Planning Association and the Industry Super Network, Money Management's Mike Taylor pu...

Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is up to proposed international standards, according to an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report....

Unlisted property schemes will be required to adhere to six new disclosure benchmarks from 1 November 2012....

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has called for higher levels of competency in the provision of financial advice following recent damni...

SPAA will work with ASIC to develop its in-house code of conduct so that SPAA members are exempt from opt-in requirements when the FOFA reforms take effect....

The ownership of financial planners by product manufacturers creates one of the main barriers to improving the quality of advice in Australia, according to ASIC....

The FPA's Mark Rantall has told a Money Management roundtable that asset-based fees should not act as an impediment to ASIC providing class-order relief from opt-in....

The number of companies entering liquidation is continuing to break records, with 10,544 companies entering some form of insolvency administration in the year to January ...

The FPA's code of conduct will not be the only approach considered by ASIC, with the Association of Financial Advisers's principles of practice also ready for implementat...

Following Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten's announcement regarding a watering-down of opt-in requirements yesterday, ANZ was still prepari...

FOFA bills containing key opt-in amendments pass House of Representatives....

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

The Coalition has expressed disbelief the FPA may have done a deal with the ISN conceding opt-in in exchange for other concessions including enshrining the term “financia...

The FPA has announced a series of educational workshops that will address recent poor results from ASIC's financial planning shadow shop....