FOFA

Financial planning

FPA rebuts industry funds on best interest

The FPA has rebutted “rhetoric and scare-mongering” about best interests and consumer protection. ...

Financial planning

AFA to launch a grassroots FOFA campaign

The AFA calls members to fight 'scare-mongering’ around consumer protection by engaging federal MPs on FOFA....

Financial planning

Accountants throw weight behind tax deductability of advice

The Institute of Public Accountants has joined the ranks of those calling for advice to be made tax deductible....

Financial planning

FDS preparation work should not be wasted

Planners who have prepared for the full FDS regime should continue to use the work to build their value proposition and client relationships...

People & Products

FOFA prompts IOOF recruitment drive

IOOF hires a head of specialist sales as part of its post-FOFA value proposition....

Editorial

Bringing FOFA back into balance

As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...

Financial planning

Call for appropriate aligned and non-aligned definitions

Transparency around who is an “aligned” or “non-aligned” adviser deemed vital....

Financial planning

Opportunities and challenges for financial planners in 2014

Milana Pokrajac looks at some of the challenges and opportunities financial planners can expect over the next 12 months. ...

Financial planning

Nine things advisers should be on the look out for in 2014

Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....

Editorial

Financial Systems Review a chance to move beyond FOFA

While there are many loose ends associated with the Future of Financial Advice regime, Mike Taylor writes that the Government should avoid allowing its Financial Systems ...