FINANCIAL ADVICE
Financial planning
Financial advisers have reacted angrily to continuing attacks on the industry by compensation lawyers who blame financial planners for negative market performance and enc...
Editorial
Something became very clear when Money Management recently conducted a roundtable focusing on the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation tabled in the Parliament e...
Editorial
While many in the financial planning industry support the broad, original thrust of the Future of Financial Advice changes, Mike Taylor writes that the manner of their in...
Financial planning
The expectation of a change in Government and consequent changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation has created serious uncertainty and prompted at leas...
Superannuation
The Opposition is not trying to wage a war against industry superannuation funds, but the FOFA bill has to be fair across the entire industry, said Shadow Minister for Fi...
Financial planning
Key regulators have admitted that deliberate financial services fraud is hard to stop with or without regulatory changes....
Policy & Regulation
The financial planning industry needs to remove all perceived conflicts of interest before it can be seen as a trusted profession, according to chartered accountant and f...
Financial planning
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has outlined the regulator's proposed measures to improve the "competency and quality of ad...
Financial planning
ASIC has agreed on the need for transparency around fee arrangements on scaled advice....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled a new advertising campaign to promote the value of financial advice and the need for everyday Australians to form...
Superannuation
SPAA and Russell want to know what SMSF trustees think are the big issues....
Financial planning
The ISN has used an ASIC report that found around 90 per cent of income of the top 20 licensees is paid by product providers to reiterate calls for key elements of the FO...
Financial planning
ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....
Superannuation
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has been accused of protecting industry superannuation funds and handing them an edge in the provision of financial advice....
Policy & Regulation
A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...