FINANCIAL ADVICE

Policy & Regulation

The introduction of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes could spur the emergence of a new player in the platforms and wraps sector, by driving advisers who are ...

Editorial

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

Editorial

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

Policy & Regulation

OnePath has launched a program called FutureReady, which is aimed at preparing advisers for the post-Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) environment....

Policy & Regulation

A Money Management survey has confirmed strong backing for a legal challenge to FOFA....

Editorial

With the recent one-year anniversary of Julia Gillard toppling Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister and leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, the Australian financial ...

Policy & Regulation

Victorian practice principal Brian Handley says FOFA must be subjected to legal challenge....

Policy & Regulation

Please complete our short survey on what readers think of a legal challenge to FOFA....

Financial planning

The AFA's grassroots campaign to lobby politicians over their concerns relating to the Governments FOFA reforms is working, according to the AFA....

Financial planning

Synchron is encouraging its advisers to lobby politicians against the FOFA reforms, which it says pander to the 'socialist' union super fund movement....

Policy & Regulation

Life insurance provider Asteron has created a Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) 'lobby pack', which teaches the company's adviser network how to lobby their members of pa...

Financial planning

Queensland boutique PWK Private Wealth Advisers has moved under the Paragem umbrella....

Editorial

A strong line of argument is being pursued by sections of the financial planning industry that the Government has been focusing its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) chan...

Editorial

Tim Browne shares his views and presents some case histories as he surveys the much-debated topic of banning commissions for risk insurance within superannuation. ...

Policy & Regulation

Van Eyk has called for a requirement for the pay-for-ratings research model to be disclosed within the Government's FOFA reforms....

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