FUTURE OF FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

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

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

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

Policy & Regulation

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

Editorial

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

Policy & Regulation

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

Financial planning

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

Editorial

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

Superannuation

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

Policy & Regulation

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

Policy & Regulation

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

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 ...

Financial planning

Bendigo Wealth has formed a partnership with Provisio Technologies under which the software firm will help Bendigo form a scaled advice offering....

Accounting

Bill Shorten criticises accounting bodies for publishing open letter on accountants' exemption, promising an announcement within weeks....

Policy & Regulation

The cost of further superannuation tax concessions is inaccurate and based on outdated data, according to new ASFA research....

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