ASIC has released highly preliminary figures from its financial planning shadow shop exercise at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) hearing, having given only 24 hou...

The underlying legality of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will almost certainly be tested in the event the legislation passes the Parliament w...

The FOFA reforms well and truly dominated the financial planning industry during 2011 and the year ahead looks set to bring more of the same, writes Nicolette Rubinsztein...

If the parliamentarians involved in the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills put aside their political affiliations then they will back some key amendme...

While industry bodies support the Government's proposed regulatory amendments to accelerate the wind-up of so-called 'phoenix' companies and claim the issue is not a majo...

The passing of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has paved the way for an increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG)....

ASIC has used its submission to the PJC to point to the difficulty of dealing with miscreant financial planners who appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ma...

The linking of Workplace Relations and Financial Services reflects factional clout rather than good governance....

Securitor, one of BT Financial Group's major dealer groups with 450 advisers, has joined the Association of Financial Advisers....

While Industry Super Network has made considerable gains against the financial planning industry in its campaign against commissions there remains increasing concerns abo...

If Industry Super Network has ended 2011 as the industry's big winner, it came at the expense of the financial planning industry....

Australia's three major accounting bodies have backed the two-year opt-in arrangements contained in the Government's Future of Financial Advice arrangements, describing t...

Changes to the delivery of intra-fund financial advice preclude recommendations to consolidate superannuation accounts or move from one fund to another, but still fall sh...

The political clock is ticking and, as Mike Taylor writes, global economic reality may overtake the Government’s policy agenda before it can deliver proof of a Budget sur...