The Government is wrong in its move to stop people from paying for financial advice from their MySuper accounts, according to the Financial Planning Association....

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

The Financial Planning Association has questioned the need for a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort when the Government has for nearly a decade failed to address the prob...

The benefits of comprehensive financial advice significantly outweigh those delivered by intra-fund advice and this should be recognised within the Retirement Income Syst...

The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...

The Financial Planning Association has sought to make very sure that advisers do not get negatively roped into the current debate around stamping fee exemptions....

Renaming ‘general advice’ will be crucial to the manner in which digital advice is delivered in Australia and how it sits alongside traditional advice models, according t...

Strong rules need to be written to ensure that financial advice given by insurance companies or their representatives at claim time is clearly recognised for what it is –...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been accused of unilaterally and quietly raising the per adviser levy to $1,142....

The Financial Planning Association has created a guide to help planners digitally evolve their statements of advice....

Submissions directed to Treasury around the end of grandfathering revealed little significant resistance but genuine concern around how client rebates should work....

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has said it will take the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics into account in making its determi...

Consumers prefer engaging statements of advice such as videos, infographics, and quizzes rather than traditional paper-based SOAs, according to the Financial Planning Ass...

The Financial Planning Association is canvassing what the industry might look like over the next half-decade including whether a new licensing regime may evolve....