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Editorial
The industry funds are seeking to play the consumer protection card in their defence of the default funds under modern awards regime but the real beneficiaries of the sta...
Financial planning
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
Superannuation
Almost half of all working Australians have more than one superannuation account, and they pay $532 a year in fees per account....
Superannuation
APRA says it has reduced the compliance burden of super funds under its watch by changing a definition and cutting back on heavily-criticised duplication in reporting req...
Superannuation
While their members see little value in sporting sponsorships, super fund executives and trustees are split on the issue....
Life/Risk
APRA identifies exit of reinsurers as primary driver of higher premiums in group market....
Life/Risk
APRA warns life insurers they need to take responsibility for the manner in which their products are sold....
Superannuation
APRA will wait and see what finally emerges from the unions Royal Commission before acting with respect to allegations confronting Cbus....
Funds management
ASIC plans to probe the mortgage lending standards of the Big Four, particularly honing in on interest-only loans. ...
Financial planning
Authorised deposit-taking institutions’ mortgage lending practices will come under the microscope in 2015 as APRA seeks to clampdown on risky lending....
Superannuation
APRA has been questioned over the appropriateness of industry fund directors’ fees exceeding $1 million a year....
Superannuation
ISA claimed industry super funds have outperformed their bank-owned counterparts when it comes to median returns, after APRA released Quarterly MySuper Statistics....
Editorial
For the chief executives of financial services companies struggling to fund the cost of compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment, the 2013-14 annual report o...
Life/Risk
Life insurers operating in the group risk area ignored warnings from APRA that price reductions and soft underwriting practices would affect profitability...
People & Products
Quantum Financial principal Claire Mackay has been appointed to ASIC's external advisory panel. ...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...