The FOFA legislation once heralded was a long time coming – and with its implementation date has also arrived a raft of questions as to how parts of the legislation will ...

A group of boutique financial planning businesses is planning to launch a pro-bono advice service for people in need, which could be beneficial to the financial planning ...

While political leaders came and went and further regulation rumbled through, it seemed the financial planning sector spent the last 12 months in a holding pattern with m...

FPA states that professional status requires association membership....

AMP will make it mandatory for nearly 2000 planners to be members of a professional association. ...

FPA chief executive officer Mark Rantall calls for planners to set industry moral compass....

Mortgage Choice has expanded to become a broad financial services provider by setting up a referral relationship with Allianz to provide general insurance. ...

The recent flurry of opinions around making financial planners accountable to the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) only continues to fuel more flawed arguments that are not ...

Financial planners wishing to keep providing advice in areas such as superannuation after 1 July will have to complete a course approved by the Taxation Practitioners Boa...

It is to be hoped that the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has noted the capacity of the financial planning industry to do good and to rally to the needs o...

Amelia Constantinidis has been appointed as the new director of AMP’s Horizons Academy....

Claude Santucci has stepped down as president of the Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group (BFPPG) to take on a supporting administrative role....

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

The financial planning industry may well be on the verge of a "golden age" in which planners finally get the recognition they deserve, says AMP's Steve Helmich....