future of financial advice

Financial planning

ASIC's platform review wins wide support

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

Superannuation

SMSFs to defy doomsayers with continued growth

Though the death of SMSFs may have been regularly predicted in years past, modelling within Deloitte's Dynamics of the Australian Superannuation System report, released i...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA amendments still needed despite delay

The FPA and AFA will continue to press for amendments to FOFA despite the 12-month implementation period....

Policy & Regulation

Bill Shorten extends FOFA implementation to July 1, 2013

Government extends compulsory FOFA implementation to July 1, 2013....

Editorial

Have ASIC and APRA lost their objectivity?

Concerns ASIC and APRA were becoming increasingly politicised were brought to a head during the hearings into the FOFA reforms....

Policy & Regulation

FOFA flaws outlined in FPA letter to independents

The FPA has written to the key independents outlining the flaws in the FOFA bills and seeking support for amendments....

Financial planning

ASIC reviewing platform regulation

Platform providers might be required to disclose their selection criteria for financial products included on their investment menu....

Editorial

The trouble with industry super funds

There are several reasons why many financial planners avoid recommending industry super funds. Cameron Darrow outlines a few....

Superannuation

Securitor moves ahead of accountants' exemption announcement

Securitor has developed an offering to help accountants continue to provide SMSF-related services....

Policy & Regulation

Where are the Greens on FOFA?

Observers attending the parliamentary committees reviewing the FOFA bills are concerned at the absence of the Australian Greens....

Policy & Regulation

FPA asks for a one-year transition on FOFA

The Financial Planning Association has asked the Government to allow a one-year transition timeframe for the implementation of the Future of Financial Advice reforms....

Editorial

Who picks up the costs of rushing FOFA?

If Bill Shorten did not already have enough reason to announce appropriate transition periods for the implementation of FOFA and the Stronger Super legislation, he might ...