The Parliamentary Joint Committee has been told that the absence of tax deductibility with respect to fee-for-service advice is creating a market distortion....

IFSA has called for full tax deductibility of financial advice at an inquiry hearing today into financial products and services before the Parliamentary Joint Committee o...

The Financial Services Reform Act has created an industry bogged down in paperwork and regulations, with the effect of driving advisers into the arms of product providers...

Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...

Two interesting and welcome events occurred in the financial planning industry last week – the Financial Planning Association (FPA) agreed with the Association of Financi...

Equity manager PM Capital has called for an end to payments from fund managers to financial planners, dealer groups and research houses, despite sourcing most of its $1.5...

The Industry Super Network has slammed the degree to which the banks and major institutions dominate financial planning and suggested commissions were a root cause of the...

ANZ admits some failures on Opes Prime and Storm, but wants the professionalisation of the financial planning industry....

QInvest submission argues that advisers are at cross-roads and that they cannot serve two masters....

The Ideas Centre will help AFA members to build, manage and protect not only the wealth of their clients but also the value of their own businesses....

One of Australia's largest financial planning dealer groups has told a parliamentary inquiry that there are "clear deficiencies" in ASIC's licensing process, while low ed...

The Institute of Actuaries has suggested that planners be required to give clients a mandatory stress test to ensure they are aware of their risk exposures....

A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...