The major financial planning groups and companies are continuing to lobby for FOFA changes, but planners are being urged to accept the law as it currently stands....

Financial planners are being urged to take a ‘financial services oath’ to uphold integrity in the profession, by the Australian Labor Party....

New research has revealed planning profits were being eroded by FOFA well before the Senate’s disallowance of the Government’s changes....

The Federal Opposition has voted down the amendments to FOFA after protracted debate and procedural wrangling which occupied most of yesterday’s sitting time....

Efforts to pass a motion in the Federal Senate to disallow FOFA amendments have stalled for the time being after the Federal Government blocked a vote on the motion....

The FPA has denounced efforts in the Senate to disallow amendments to FOFA predicting changes will automatically place advisers in breach of the law....

The Federal Opposition will push to disallow the FOFA amendments in the Senate after Labor Senator Sam Dastyari stated it had secured the numbers to win a vote on the mat...

Instead of targeting commissions for life insurance products, policy reforms should revisit conflicted remuneration, which hasn’t been properly handled by FOFA, Chan & Na...

The corporate regulator will consider model portfolios as a suitable investment under best interest duties if they do not adopt mechanistic processes on selecting assets ...

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

ASIC has the power to move to lift planner education standards, according to Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann....

ASIC reports it has refused applications for relief including one from a planner who requested the use of the word ‘independent’ to describe their practice....

The Government's proposed registry of financial advisers will provide transparency without the costs associated with regulation the Minister for Finance and acting Deputy...

The financial services sector still lacks regulation that requires advisers to identify when they are providing independent advice and when they are selling products, a l...