FINANCIAL ADVICE
Policy & Regulation
A Perth based financial planner has begun a campaign to seek an apology from independent senator Jackie Lambie after she labelled financial advisers as ‘unscrupulous’....
Editorial
With the demographic certainty of an ageing population, financial advice will play a critical role in enhancing retirement incomes and reducing the strain on the public p...
Financial planning
The major financial planning groups and companies are continuing to lobby for FOFA changes, but planners are being urged to accept the law as it currently stands....
Financial planning
Financial planners are being urged to take a ‘financial services oath’ to uphold integrity in the profession, by the Australian Labor Party....
Policy & Regulation
The back and forth nature of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) amendments are likely to cause consumers to put off seeking financial planning advice costing them abou...
Financial planning
Industry organisations have applauded parliament’s restoration of the grandfathering provision in the latest round of the FOFA reforms, claiming it overturned a rule that...
Policy & Regulation
Labor will support Govt FOFA changes on grandfathering and other key elements....
Policy & Regulation
Planners are accused of hanging on to horse and cart in their resistance to FOFA changes....
Financial planning
Finance Minister, Senator Mathias Cormann says the Government remains committed to its FOFA changes....
Policy & Regulation
The actions of one senator reversing their support for the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will undermine competition in the advice sector, Synchro...
Policy & Regulation
FOFA reforms as they stand push affordable advice further out of reach without addressing consumer protection, academic says. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has answered parliamentary questions about superannuation union liaison officers, the type of advice they can provide and whose AFSL they might be working under....
Policy & Regulation
Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...
Policy & Regulation
The disallowance of the Future of Financial Advice amendments may hurt consumers who will not be able to access scaled advice and may be forced to change to less suitable...
Financial planning
FPA’s outgoing chairman, Matthew Rowe, says the FPA won’t seek to defend the indefensible where bad advice is concerned....
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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...