Efforts to improve the standards of the financial planning sector are driving the cost of advice beyond the reach of average Australians, William Buck reports. ...

van Eyk’s administrator has recommended winding up the research house, ahead of a meeting tomorrow to determine the company’s fate. ...

MySuper should be made ‘opt-in’ because it places insurance cover at risk, says CSSA....

AFA members will have to abide by six new principles of professionalism, which are set to form a critical part of the AFA’s revised Code of Conduct....

Financial services licensees should make it a point to highlight their conflicts of interests with life insurance companies to clients....

The FSI’s call for clarity on potential vertical integration conflicts could see moves towards parent-company transparency in the aligned advice space, Synchron director ...

While media reports are suggesting Senate disallowance of the FOFA regulatory changes is a fait accompli, Cormann says wait and see....

Advisers who left independently-owned licensees in tougher financial times are expected flock back in the name of “unbiased” advice. ...

The FSC says the Government’s FOFA changes announcement means its time to end the scare-mongering. ...

Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...

Senate Committee recommends FOFA amendments be passed but Greens and Labor Senators object to all the suggested changes....

Cormann says Senate Committee report will influence the shape of the Government’s ultimate FOFA changes....

Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann claims critics of the Government’s FOFA changes have fallen short on offering viable alternatives....

Industry Super Australia (ISA) has reiterated its view that Future of Financial Advise (FOFA) reforms should be given time to deliver benefits to consumers before new cha...