Strategies based on particular government policy positions should be regarded as having reliable shelf-life no longer than that of the Government which introduced them....
Despite the populist chest-beating rhetoric from some of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s most senior executives, superannuation funds don’t breach ...
Just short of 20 years after beginning their adventure in wealth management, the major banks have all headed for the exit, leaking billions of dollars. ...
The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Dante De Gori is absolutely right to urge the major parties against turning the final recommendations of ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wounded by the Royal Commission and is out to prove a number of important points, no matter what the cost. ...
The final report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has identified some important issues but the compl...
2018 must be accepted by financial planners as having been a watershed year....
AMP Limited’s sale of its insurance business will help it cut loose some uncomfortable legacy issues, but it remains to face into the substantial challenges associated wi...
Even allowing for an injection of pragmatism the essential elements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will remain unchanged and planners will...
The Royal Commission’s preliminary report may be flawed when it comes to understanding the nuances of the industry but it should be accepted as an accurate reflection of ...
The Royal Commission has laid bare appalling practices within some of the insurance call centres, making direct life/risk sales something which may bring into question th...
The Royal Commission when combined with the Federal Election will dictate significant change for financial planners in 2019. ...
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 ...