AIST and ISN are calling for a clearer definition of the word 'advice’, as the current wording of TASA prohibits industry super funds from providing intra-fund advice. ...
The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....
FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....
The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...
FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....
The Future of Financial Advice regime will become law from 1 July, but as the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo points out, many questions vital to the finan...
The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....
The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....
First it was off, now it’s back on as the independents support the TASA bill going to the PJC....
Only the Coalition in the Senate stands between the passage of the legislation enshrining ‘planner’/‘adviser’....
Jack Flader, the US lawyer named as being connected to the Trio/Astarra collapse, now knows what it is like to be thrashed with a damp lettuce leaf. ...
An important statistical snippet came to light during the hearings into legally enshrining the terms ‘financial planner/adviser’ – nearly 50 per cent of planners/advisers...
Following the Federal Government's response to the parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of Trio Capital and the report into compensation arrangements for consumers of ...
The FPA has hit back at the Government’s claim that financial adviser misconduct is the only reason why compensation has been awarded to victims of the Trio Capital colla...
A group of Trio victims has condemned the Federal Government for its refusal to compensate them for their $176 million loss. ...
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...