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At first blush the Federal Government’s proposal for the establishment of a Council of Superannuation Custodians capable of guiding and advising on underlying policy seem...
With the Federal Budget, end of financial year and Federal Election looming, the financial planning industry is still facing a number of critical legislative loose ends. ...
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...
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. ...
ASIC was right when it issued a warning to financial services licensees to ensure they have “robust recruitment processes” in place when appointing people who have previo...
The appeals of the FPA for a further extension of the TASA implementation seemed to be falling on deaf ears, with the Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, seeming determi...
The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...
Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...
If one issue has clearly defined the divide which continues to exist between financial planners and accountants, it has been the chequered passage of the Government’s Tax...
Despite the Parliament having risen for the winter recess, and probably for the last time before a Federal election, it will nonetheless be difficult to keep politics out...
When Commonwealth Financial Planning was subjected to an enforceable undertaking imposed by ASIC in 2011, it was the subject of a good deal of media coverage in Money Man...
There will be many in the financial services industry who will welcome the return of Chris Bowen to over-arching management as Federal Treasurer of the Financial Services...
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This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...