The backlash against the Government's Future of Financial Advice amendments demonstrates just how hard deregulation really is - held back by a mire of special interests and tendency for doomsaying, ...

In light of today's announcements from Mathias Cormann, Australia's Minister for Finance, the future of FoFA is becoming clearer. The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation has been surrounded ...

Julie Walker has previously received research funding from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. She is affiliated with Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand. Last week brought ...

Although the process involving the upcoming FOFA reforms commenced a few years ago, the reforms package still looks like an unsolved jigsaw puzzle, writes Pam Roberts. Although legislation ...

The FOFA legislation once heralded was a long time coming – and with its implementation date has also arrived a raft of questions as to how parts of the legislation will work in practice. Jason Spits ...

Far from reducing the cost of financial advice and improving access, the PUP-approved FOFA changes will favour the big banks and allow planners to provide poor advice, writes Martin North. Yesterday, ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The government has grabbed an unlikely victory to preserve its changes to Labor’s Future of Financial Advice legislation, ...

After Clive Palmer backed down last week the government’s Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms are law … well, sort of. We take you through the nitty-gritty in the law — what’s changed, and what ...