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Policy & Regulation

A surprisingly large response to a combined Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Services Council forum on the Future of Financial Advice changes indicates fin...

Policy & Regulation

Financial planners move on from FOFA 'wedge'

The Association of Financial Advisers tells its members it is time to move on with the new post-FOFA environment despite being wedged by the Govt and Industry Super Netwo...

Financial planning

FPA and education council call for unified accreditation

The Financial Planning Association and Financial Planning Education Council have released for consultation a national financial planning curriculum that also calls for a ...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA unknowns still a concern

The Future of Financial Advice reforms may have passed through the House of Representatives but there is plenty of unknown detail causing concern to the major association...

Editorial

Will Bill Shorten deliver on his FOFA promise?

In the lead up to the Federal Budget it remains to be seen whether the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, will deliver on legislating the restricted use of th...

Policy & Regulation

AFA pinpoints outing of ISN as an achievement

The Association of Financial Advisers says exposing the degree to which the Industry Super Network was driving the Future of Financial Advice changes represented one of t...

Editorial

Why the FOFA infighting needs to end

Some of the players might not approve of the way in which the FOFA bills will ultimately be shaped but, as Mike Taylor reports, a Money Management roundtable has conclude...

Financial planning

Lingering uncertainty on scaled advice

Scaled advice remains an area of considerable uncertainty despite the Future of Financial Advice bills having passed the House of Representatives....

Policy & Regulation

AFA and FSC link on FOFA forum

The Financial Services Council and Association of Financial Advisers have joined together to provide a forum looking at life in a post-FOFA financial planning world....

Financial planning

Financial advisers urged to be cautious on technology investment

Financial advisers should take certain precautions when investing in technology, according to Synchron chair Michael Harrison....

Financial planning

New iApp edition of Money Management out now

This week's iPad edition of Money Management is out now with the latest in news, exclusive video content and features....

Financial planning

ISN urged to stop anti-financial planner advertising post-FOFA

The Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association say the ISN has no justification for maintaining its anti-planner advertising post-FOFA....

Policy & Regulation

FPA says ASIC should not baulk at asset-based fees

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....

Policy & Regulation

AFA ready with 'principles of practice'

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...

Policy & Regulation

Divided industry in wake of FOFA bills

Strongly divergent views have emerged from Australia's major financial planning organisations in the wake of the FOFA bills, while the Opposition has made a policy commit...