Editorial

There exists plenty of evidence that the External Dispute Resolution regime and its interplay with PI cover is proving problematic for the financial planning industry. Mi...

Editorial

ASIC’s planner education future

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has laid out how the regulator sees the future of financial planner education – and the challenge will be how the indu...

Editorial

Fair Work Commission raises the MySuper stakes

MySuper and the default funds under modern awards regime have been areas of controversy for many months but, as Mike Taylor writes, the actions of the Fair Work Commissio...

Editorial

Govt sending signals on changes to default funds regime

Mike Taylor writes that Government Senators are sending plenty of messages about impending changes aimed at opening up the default funds under modern awards regime. ...

Editorial

Outflanked in FOFA PR battle

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

Editorial

Meting out equal justice

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

Editorial

Making life insurance sustainable

Geoff Summerhayes argues that there exist parallels between the public’s acceptance of sustainable energy and the push for a sustainable life insurance industry, with the...

Editorial

Caveat emptor necessary amid planner churn

With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...

Editorial

Can a super tax egg be unscrambled?

Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...

Editorial

Much ado about churning

With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission having fired a shot over the bows of the industry on the question of churn, the Risk Store’s Sue Laing argues th...

Editorial

Govt's super tax debate has a familiar ring

Mike Taylor writes that it is passing strange that the Government has allowed a debate around the super taxes for upper income earners when it has failed to implement a v...