FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Editorial

The financial planning industry has been undertaking some intense lobbying in recent weeks in the hope of extracting some key amendments to the Government’s Future of Fin...

Financial planning

Advertised financial planning industry job vacancies have fallen over the last three months to 31 October 2011 due to regulatory change and institutional mergers, accordi...

Financial planning

It has been a turbulent year in the financial planning industry, with a number of executives losing their positions as the consolidation in the market continues....

Superannuation

The vast majority of industry superannuation fund members who receive external financial advice move their money into a retail fund or an SMSF, according to Deloitte part...

Superannuation

The financial planning industry has welcomed the Government's proposal to raise the superannuation guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent....

Superannuation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA's) handling of superannuation funds needs to be just as transparent as its handling of the major banks, according t...

Policy & Regulation

<b>Latest Edition:</b> The financial planning industry was recently caught off guard by last-minute Government changes to the FOFA legislation. The changes were reportedl...

Editorial

Something became very clear when Money Management recently conducted a roundtable focusing on the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation tabled in the Parliament e...

Editorial

While many in the financial planning industry support the broad, original thrust of the Future of Financial Advice changes, Mike Taylor writes that the manner of their in...

Policy & Regulation

The financial planning industry needs to remove all perceived conflicts of interest before it can be seen as a trusted profession, according to chartered accountant and f...

Financial planning

The ISN has used an ASIC report that found around 90 per cent of income of the top 20 licensees is paid by product providers to reiterate calls for key elements of the FO...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry will once again buck the trend of the wider market and experience strong levels of hiring, largely due to attrition and experienced planne...

Policy & Regulation

A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....

Editorial

It is now more than six years' since the industry superannuation funds launched their 'compare the pair' advertising campaign and, as Mike Taylor reports, it appears to h...

Editorial

If the Government had cared to undertake a full regulatory impact analysis of its new legislation it might have quickly concluded that, in many respects, it was turning b...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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