Financial planners should strongly welcome the delayed implementation of FOFA because shortly after its introduction will be the next Federal Election....

ASIC's regulatory framework around financial planner education is changing, which means many planners will have to pull their socks up and hit the books. Chris Kennedy re...

The financial planning industry understands that time is running out to extract key amendments to the FOFA bills and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry has distilled it...

All focus has turned to Opposition amendments and the attitude of the independents as Parliament prepares to debate the FOFA bills....

Concerns ASIC and APRA were becoming increasingly politicised were brought to a head during the hearings into the FOFA reforms....

Mike Taylor writes that the dissenting reports produced within the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills will ensure the key points are thoroughly debate...

Recent suggestions that Kevin Rudd would offer Bill Shorten the Treasury portfolio in the event Rudd returned to the prime ministership is a reflection of the silliness t...

Mike Taylor writes that the failure of the industry’s critics to distinguish between the failure of product and the failure of advice is continuing to tarnish the reputat...

There are several reasons why many financial planners avoid recommending industry super funds. Cameron Darrow outlines a few....

Financial planning industry awaits announcements from Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, while lobbying around FOFA amendments intensifies....

Macquarie Group has withdrawn its Professional Series from Standard & Poor's 2012 Global Equity Review, as a consequence of the research house closing its Australian reta...

Macquarie Group has withdrawn its Professional Series from Standard & Poor's 2012 Global Equity Review, as a consequence of the research house closing its Australian reta...

The financial services industry has turned its attention to the parliamentary independents in the wake of the failure of the PJC reviewing the FOFA bills....

In an effort to enhance business-to-business and business-to-client relationships, Australian Financial Services Group Limited' (AFS) has backed mobile technology as the ...