FSG

Financial planning

FAAA embraces ASIC’s ‘workable’ FSG solution

ASIC’s relief measures enabling advisers to rely on website disclosure information instead of providing a Financial Services Guide has been welcomed by the industry assoc...

Expert Analysis

FSG Relief: It’s not all it’s cracked up to be

One of the apparently happy outcomes of QAR Tranche 1 was the introduction of relief from having to provide a Financial Services Guide but it turns out this was not all i...

Financial planning

May FASEA exam problem areas highlighted

Financial services guide and statement of advice documentations, breach reporting, and applying the Corporations Act are some of the key areas where exam takers are strug...

Financial planning

Most advisers to declare 'not independent'

Only 2% of advisers and advice firms can label themselves as “independent’, meaning most will be subject to the new Financial Services Guides disclosure obligations....

Financial planning

Intra-fund advice has created advice unfairness

A West Australian adviser has told the Federal Treasury that industry funds have been allowed to hide behind intra-fund advice and to create an environment that favours o...