A change of minister combined with a change in ministerial advisory personnel and Government policy attitudes has altered the dynamic for the key financial services lobby...
ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, will leave a legacy of significant change, but product intervention powers and a user-pays regime might ultimately prove problematic....
The inaugural Money Management Women’s Wealth event pointed to equal pay and financial literacy as being two key pillars for achieving equity in women’s wealth accumulati...
The country’s top 10 CEOs reported pay is $70 million less than their realised pay, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors....
The industry funds’ “compare the pair” advertising campaign was the catalyst for removal of commissions and, as Mike Taylor writes, the advent of FOFA and now its underly...
Closing the gap with respect to women’s retirement incomes is a challenge best surmounted via a political unity ticket....
The idea of a last resort compensation scheme is again being canvassed in Canberra but it is something that should not occur in isolation to fixing the PI insurance regim...
Those pursuing a Royal Commission into the financial planning industry need to stop spinning and get their facts straight....
Mike Taylor writes that the reporting of breaches needs to be accepted as not only a legal obligation but part and parcel of running a financial services company. ...
Industry funds have criticised the Government’s move to impose one-third independent directors on superannuation funds plus an independent chair but, as Mike Taylor repor...
Money Management’s Mike Taylor writes that, for the AFA, the whole life/risk reform process was a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t....
Is CPA Australia’s financial planning venture an assertive move to lift industry standards or an act of post-exemption self-preservation?...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
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 ...