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John Hewson calls for overhaul of superannuation system

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... Labor's reforms of the financial planning sector and anticipates significant changes to the current incarnation of the Future of Financial Services (FoFA) legislation. "I don't think the previous government scored too many home runs with the changes ...

Accounting and advice practices likely to increase mergers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... practices is that their financial planning fees are mainly fee-for-service, which means that they are not affected by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) issue of grandfathering commission from investments. Birt predicted that the hostility between ...

FSC anticipates different role for Senator Cormann

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... Manager Regime will take. The new government will also be keen to implement some refinement of the Stronger Super and Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms.

Industry backs Cormann as Superannuation Minister

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... chief executive Mark Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) said that it supports the changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation announced by Cormann and the Coalition prior to the election. "The AFA is also looking ...

Advisers to justify platform choice under best interest

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
Financial planners will have to justify platform choice under the best interest duty provision within the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has raised the issue that platform operators ...

AVCAL chief executive resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... contributor to the economy and just part of the economic landscape - not anything to be frightened of." Looking to the future of PE, Woodthorpe said economic times would be tight "for some time", and that PE had an important role to play in these conditions. ...

ETF market closes in on $9 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... access easily. "We are also seeing a significant increase in the use of ETFs by financial advisors as a result of the Future of Financial Advice reforms (FoFA)," he explained. Zenith senior investment analyst Dugald Higgins attributes some of the recent ...

FoFA changes, an improvement to advice businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Features such as the fee for service provision in the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation are an improvement to financial planning businesses and are attractive to customers, some advisers are saying. "I am transitioning to a fee for service ...

Kenyon Partners renames to Connect Financial

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... business financing and expert witness. Tynan expects that as soon as the dust settles after the implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, dealer groups will quickly turn their focus and attention to succession planning as Baby ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... the Joint Economics Committee Kevin Brady posed this question upon US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - to the future of financial markets everywhere. It's been nearly four months that you, I and Irene have been scouring each and every Fed head's ...