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Editorial

Trust the price the Government will pay for FOFA

Something became very clear when Money Management recently conducted a roundtable focusing on the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation tabled in the Parliament e...

Editorial

FOFA - Shorten's bitter harvest

While many in the financial planning industry support the broad, original thrust of the Future of Financial Advice changes, Mike Taylor writes that the manner of their in...

Financial planning

Time to turn lobbying focus to consumers: CommInsure

The industry needs to turn its lobbying focus back towards educating consumers about the dangers of underinsurance, according to CommInsure's Tim Browne....

Superannuation

Opposition not at war with Industry Super Network

The Opposition is not trying to wage a war against industry superannuation funds, but the FOFA bill has to be fair across the entire industry, said Shadow Minister for Fi...

Financial planning

Regulatory changes unlikely to stop deliberate fraud

Key regulators have admitted that deliberate financial services fraud is hard to stop with or without regulatory changes....

Policy & Regulation

FOFA an industry own goal

The financial planning industry needs to remove all perceived conflicts of interest before it can be seen as a trusted profession, according to chartered accountant and f...

Superannuation

SPAA and Russell again surveying trustees

SPAA and Russell want to know what SMSF trustees think are the big issues....

Financial planning

Whiteley refuses detail on cost of ISN advertising

ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....

Financial planning

Remove barriers to infrastructure investment, says FSC

The Government must remove a number of structural, regulatory and political issues that must be resolved before the $1.3 trillion in superannuation saving can be utilised...

Superannuation

Govt 'protecting' industry super funds on financial advice

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has been accused of protecting industry superannuation funds and handing them an edge in the provision of financial advice....

Policy & Regulation

Roundtable acknowledges Industry Super Network's influence on FOFA

A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....

Policy & Regulation

FOFA bill not best practice - Federal Opposition

The Federal Opposition claims the Government's FOFA bill breaches its own best practice with respect to regulatory impact....

Policy & Regulation

Govt urged to provide time and certainty on FOFA and Stronger Super

Superannuation fund trustees have urged the Government to provide more time and certainty for the transition to a Stronger Super and FOFA regime....

Financial planning

Financial planners lobbying independents

Angered by the Government's FOFA bill, financial planners have already begun lobbying the key independents in pursuit of crucial amendments....

Policy & Regulation

Canadian insurance guru questions FOFA's intent

Canadian financial planning and life insurance expert Bruce Etherington has compared Australia's current round of Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms to previous ex...