Editorial

There is a case for deferring, not cancelling a rise in the SG

By the time Australia kicks off 2021, many more businesses will be closed and many more people will be officially unemployed, as opposed to the synthetic unemployment rat...

Editorial

ASIC should not be the ultimate arbiter of the future of the LIF

Many things have changed in the Australian life insurance industry since the Life Insurance Framework was put in place meaning that the Australian Securities and Investme...

Editorial

Time for the super grandstanders to sit down

As the Government seeks to pull the Australian economy out of recession it should silence those on its backbench who are undermining confidence in the superannuation regi...

Editorial

Parliamentary committee oversight of FASEA a good thing

Regular Parliamentary Committee scrutiny of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may have helped win the adviser support it so badly needs....

Editorial

Time to audit and consolidate Financial adviser regulation

Too many Governments have looked for quick fixes where financial adviser regulation is concerned and it is time for an audit and the removal of costly and unnecessary lay...

Editorial

Superannuation too important for tinkerers

There has been a good deal of policy kite-flying around superannuation but it is arguably too important for policy kite-flying. ...

Editorial

Applying the brakes to the ambulance chasers

Australia’s litigation funders have, by and large, done a good job but few in the financial services industry will argue against making them rise to the requirements of h...

Editorial

Govt's RC implementation deferral should become a review

The Hayne Royal Commission did not get everything right and the Government should use its six-month implementation deferral to appropriately review the things that the Co...

Editorial

Criticisms of life/risk advisers don’t hold water

With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework just around the corner, the last thing life/risk advisers need is criti...

Editorial

ASIC’s ‘relief measures’ should be most definitely temporary

The Government and ASIC were right to act on making the provision of advice to confused and worried superannuation fund members and advice clients easier, but some import...

Editorial

Don’t let early access to super become the next pink batts

It is probably inevitable that some people will try to rort or manipulate hardship early access to superannuation and the Government will need to be vigilant to ensure it...

Editorial

Advisers shine amid COVID-19 but is Frydenberg aware of the glow?

Financial advisers have been the subject of some highly negative publicity over the past decade but their good works have been seen to shine as they help clients navigate...