The AFA announced it has appointed former AFA Treasurer and NSW director Deborah Kent as national president....

AFA and FSC form working body while FPA calls for insurance providers to review their offerings...

Debate over the Government’s FOFA amendments has distracted Australians from focusing on the real purpose of financial advice, the AFA believes....

The major institutions are right to take the lead on lifting educational standards in the financial planning space....

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

Life/risk advisers are bracing themselves for ASIC to issue a tough analysis of churn and lapse rates....

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....

A central register of advisers could help weed out rogue operators in the financial advice space and rebuild trust in the profession, the Association of Financial Adviser...

The Association of Financial Advisers has thanked the Palmer United Party “for its proactive action” in voting down a move to disallow the Government’s FOFA reforms....

Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....

Questions are being asked about Industry Super Australia’s integrity after its 'Compare the Pair’ advertising campaign was labelled as potentially misleading by ASIC....

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...

The grandfathering problems that plagued the advice space a year ago continue to stymy advisers and remain heavy burden on consumer choice, the Association of Financial A...

The AFA is not surprised by the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the FOFA amendments but wants the line held on product advice....