Contributors

FoFA Groundhog Day

If it feels like you are trapped in FoFA Groundhog Day, you are. The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate has been going ... [more]

Keeping it personal

At a high level, SPAA believes the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms are an important initiative for ensuring more Australians benefit from ... [more]

Global responsibility

Superannuation is one of Australia’s great economic and public policy achievements. In just under two decades, it has helped Australians save more than ... [more]

Paramedics or politicians?

In the 2011 Reader’s Digest survey of Australia’s most trusted professions, consumers ranked paramedics as the most trusted profession, and there were no ... [more]

Clients are looking for trust

The reason why three out of five Australians currently don’t seek financial advice is not due to the cost of advice, as Industry ... [more]

Balance of power

The arrangement between a consumer and a financial adviser is the classic principal-agent problem: an informed agent (financial adviser) transmits information to an ... [more]

The premiership quarter

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has just completed its national roadshow - a six-state tour to 1350 delegates, including 220 master class ... [more]

The end is in sight

After many, many hours of consultation and discussion, the Minister for Superannuation and Financial Services, Bill Shorten, is now in receipt of a ... [more]

Ask what you can do

As Bill Shorten, the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, pointed out to a sell-out crowd of more than 400 members and interested ... [more]

Ban risks everything

New research commissioned by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) confirms what many advisers already know: millions of Australians will be put at ... [more]