The ongoing process of the Quality of Advice Review has now taken twice as long as it took for the findings of the Hayne royal commission but it is understood this is "a ...

Doubt has been cast on whether Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, will be able to progress the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes reforms within a year....

Benjamin Marshan, general manager for policy and advocacy at the FPA, is to leave after seven years ahead of its merger with AFA with a replacement appointed in the inter...

Regulation of crypto assets should be consistent with non-crypto versions, according to the Financial Planning Association of Australia, in order to protect consumers fro...

Business processes, succession planning and system efficiency are among areas that advisers can focus on this year thanks to a lull in regulatory change, writes Oksana Pa...

Most of the Financial Planning Association of Australia’s members are against providing a full experience pathway and the association is working through a way to balance ...

The compensation scheme of last resort should be expanded to include the jurisdiction of the complaints authority, not retrospectively, according to the Financial Plannin...

Making financial advice tax deductible is one of the key goals for advocacy in the new year for the Financial Planning Association of Australia....

With a Federal Election and several reviews underway, there will be no room for regulatory changes in 2022 but the end of the year will be a different story once those ar...

The roles of the adviser and licensee may need to be more clearly defined for the individual adviser registration regime to properly function. ...

Industry associations have welcomed the one-off exam measure but would have liked the extension to have included those who had experienced significant events that had pre...

To avoid any uncertainty over the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam scheduling next year, advisers should only take the ‘career break’ option as a las...

COVID-19 has been a catalyst for technological change in the industry but, Chris Dastoor writes, a major issue remains in how technology can address the accessibility of ...

The Government is talking about it, the regulator is talking about it and now digital advice player Six Park has released a white paper emphasising the need for an expand...