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AFA has accused ISA of hypocrisy for not making its FOFA submission publicly available, despite its loud calls for transparency....

Editorial

Based on recent media coverage, it would be easy to believe that the Abbott Government was quite recklessly setting about dismantling all the consumer protections contain...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Plan for Life have named CommInsure 2013 Life Company of the Year....

Financial planning

Money Management breakfast will see Kell and Bushby traverse the future of financial services regulation....

Financial planning

Planners need to make sure clients have realistic expectations of retirement, not just financially but also in terms of their personal goals....

Editorial

Close watchers of the financial services industry will have noted that for a period of about 18 months to the end of 2013 an informal truce seemed to exist between the FP...

Editorial

There exists plenty of evidence that the External Dispute Resolution regime and its interplay with PI cover is proving problematic for the financial planning industry. Mi...

Financial planning

ASIC could roll-out a national adviser competency exam for $300, linking it to a register of licensed advisers. ...

Financial planning

Adviser education programs are at risk of being severely cut because the way they are funded is seen as conflicted remuneration, says AFA. ...

Financial planning

Adviser associations support the creation of an adviser register but reject an exam as an inadequate measure of adviser competencies. ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) says that contrary to recent reports, general advice amendments have no bearing on the activities of financial advisers. ...

Financial planning

The actions of external dispute resolution entities has served to impact both the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance. ...

Editorial

No one should be surprised by Industry Super Australia CEO David Whiteley's response to the release by the Government of an options-stage Regulatory Impact Statement of i...

Financial planning

The AFA calls members to fight 'scare-mongering’ around consumer protection by engaging federal MPs on FOFA....

Editorial

As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...

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