The Financial Planning Association is keenly anticipating a national regulatory regime for mortgage broking, saying it may only be weeks away from public consultation fol...
The key message of the FPA presentation to the Parliamentary Committee conducting the inquiry into the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry was the need...
MLC has called for the super fund sole purpose test to be amended to allow members to pay for financial advice from their super fund....
The Financial Planning Association has called for changes to be made to the Financial Services Reform Act to ease the burden of compliance on financial planners and make ...
A West Australian-based risk adviser has criticised the regulator in a submission to a Federal Parliamentary inquiry for an alleged bias in favour of industry funds in ta...
The man responsible for setting the rules for financial planners has praised independently-owned advisers for their “objective advice” and indicated an expansion of the d...
The Government has confirmed that the issue of distribution and remuneration arrangements is one for the financial services industry itself to resolve....
The recent enforceable undertaking imposed on AMP Financial Planning by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has potentially made compliance with financia...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...