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The Association of Financial Advisers has pointed to the likelihood of further rounds of Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority consultation around education pa...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have cautioned against allowing a retirement income covenant trumping advice, but Challenger ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Federal Treasury that Comprehensive Income Products in Retirement will not be as effective as ensuring people receive...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has told the Royal Commission that industry self-regulation may fall short if industry codes of practice are neither uniform nor unenforceable....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission was left with little discretion around the future of Dover Financial Services with the licensee exercising its right ...

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Expert Analysis

Banning grandfathered commissions without first having a definitive policy objective speaks to ideological and simplistic motivations, writes Phil Anderson....

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Financial planning

Self-licensed planners who want to exit the industry in the current Royal Commission/FASEA environment should not be penalised by unrealistic license cancellation fees, a...

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Financial planning

Questions are being asked around why the financial planning community is being blamed when the Government has done little about legacy products in nearly two decades....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has described calls for the banning of grandfathered commissions as “simplistic and ideological” and has suggested they are premised...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that for the major financial planning organisations the future resides in looking beyond the Royal Commission and reaping the benefits which flow from ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has defended the retention of grandfathered trail commissions, arguing they don’t equate to ongoing service or fee for no service....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told the Royal Commission that grandfathered trail commissions equate to ongoing fees....

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Financial planning

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has already canvassed a tougher and more effective regulatory and lice...

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News

The Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin has been asked what it takes for an adviser to be expelled from his organisation....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are scheduled to appear before the Royal Commission today with the focus expected to be on ho...

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