Financial advice firms already digesting the scale of their Australian Securities and Investments Commission levy invoices are worried about what a compensation scheme of...

There was support for increased standards in the financial advice industry, Chris Dastoor writes, but any goodwill was destroyed by FASEA in just a few years. Where did i...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has prosecuted many people for operating without an Australian Financial Services License but it appears no one has b...

Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...

While much attention was focused on other elements of its Your Future Your Super legislation, the Government has moved at the same time to impose key obligations with res...

Senator Jane Hume says her greatest frustration is the disconnect between what she is being told by superannuation funds and what she is being told by industry bodies....

It is not often that Outsider feels a sense of surprise. But the usually unfazed Outsider was left feeling shocked when he attended what must have been one of the first i...

Jane Hume has said the legislated superannuation guarantee rise had put the government in an “awkward” position as it was trying to lower costs to businesses. ...

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may be gone but its exam timetable will continue and so will the requirement for financial advisers to become degree ...

Mike Taylor writes that few people genuinely argued with the objectives set out for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority but they did argue with the autho...

The Government has scrapped the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority with its standards making functions rolled into Treasury while remaining elements are han...

The Federal Government has signalled it will not be relenting on making superannuation funds perform and be more transparent for members....

The widespread general criticism of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s latest efforts around code of conduct guidance should be the catalyst for the G...

Outsider knows what it’s like to be treated like a mushroom. He is not unfamiliar with being kept in the dark and being fed execrable information....