The Federal Government should use the creation of a single disciplinary body to create a single regulator and thereby reduce complexity and costs....
The Government should provide financial advisers with some flexibility with respect to opt-in arrangements as they seek to deal with another round of lockdown, according ...
With the cost of Commerce-related degrees rising by 28% the Association of Financial Advisers is pointing to additional impact on a planning industry already hit by advis...
A member of a key Parliamentary Committee has queried whether financial planners are too afraid to challenge the Australian Securities and Investments Commission because ...
Extraordinary circumstances call for a changed regulatory approach says AFA....
Both advisers and their clients are opting for telephone and screen-based consultations amid growing fears around transmission of the coronavirus....
AFA’s Phil Anderson says that despite pushback on Royal Commission recommendations to change trail commissions for mortgage brokers, advisers were still better prepared f...
Financial advisers are facing significant extra hours of work to transition clients across to annual renewals....
Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....
How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...
Amid concern and confusion around how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission yearly opt-in and fee disclosure will work, adviser groups are urging flexibili...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been accused of exceeding its legislative remit with a resulting detriment to financial advisers....
With financial planning groups meeting with the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority today, the Association of Financial Advisers has sent a message that issu...
The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority of unilaterally seeking to rewrite the law and thereby placing 57% ...
The Association of Financial Advisers has called for the release of key consultation submissions and for greater clarity around the detail of the Government’s legislation...
What happened to the 700,000 million of MLC if $1.2 Billion was migrated to Expand but Expand had only 512 Million in in...
The judge was quite undrstanding! THEN AASSIICC comes along and closes him down!All you 15600 people who work in the bu...
How could that underestimate happen?usually the quote transfer straight into the SOA, and what on earth has the commissi...