Bristow announces merger between Infocus and PATRON...

Proposed regulatory reforms of the FOFA legislation should be put on hold following the Senate Economics Committee report on ASIC’s performance, ISA believes....

Government Senator, David Bushby, has issued a dissenting report arguing a royal commission is unnecessary...

Australians need to put a minimum of an extra 5.5 per cent of their salaries into superannuation each year on top of the super guarantee, experts from Deloitte Actuaries ...

ASIC, Treasury and the TPB have been urged to ensure the harmonisation of the standards applied to advisers....

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

Financial advisers should be taking advantage of new technologies to market their services to clients....

Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, claims industry funds had a vested commercial interest in resisting the Government’s FOFA changes....

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...

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 planning industry has welcomed the Government’s FOFA changes most of which will be imposed via regulation but which include a tougher approach to conflicted remunerat...

SPAA claims that explanatory statements to FOFA amendments will be ineffective and best interest duty and conflicted remuneration should be defined within legislation....

The Financial Service Inquiry is unlikely to drive deep changes to the financial services sector according to an analysis of the 270 submissions made to the inquiry....