Self-Managed Superannuation Funds should be exempted from the Government’s new design and distribution regime because they are not like other financial products, accordin...

Advisers and their clients should retain control of opt-in arrangements and there should be flexibility for low fee-paying clients with less frequent interactions, accord...

Submissions directed to Treasury around the end of grandfathering revealed little significant resistance but genuine concern around how client rebates should work....

Industry submissions to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority were calling for a 12-month adviser code exemption just a week before the Australian Securiti...

Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...

With financial planning groups meeting with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority today, the Association of Financial Advisers has sent a message that issu...

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics of Authority of using its code of ethics approach to ‘create its own laws, wa...

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged banks who loaned money to advisers to buy books of clients to show leniency....

A little talked about Australian Securities and Investments Commission project around the adviser best interests duty has been identified as substantially increasing red ...

Advised life insurance taken out as a safeguard for clients who take out home mortgages should be specifically exempted from the Government’s tough new rules around the s...

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...

Lobbying by financial advisers has revealed that at least some Federal Labor parliamentarians are sympathetic to allowing passage of the legislation necessary to deliver ...

The findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission cannot be left to go unchallenged in circumstances where the outcome was far from perfect and, in some circumstan...

The 'weaponisation of compliance' is bringing up wider problems with licensees, not just a few individual bad apples. ...