Mike Taylor writes that in a delicately-balanced House of Representatives there is no guarantee the Government can continue to deflect pressure for a banking Royal Commis...
Industry Super Australia chief executive, David Whiteley has ramped up his defence of the default fund regime claiming the Big Four banks want super dominance....
Three of the four major banks have urged the Parliament to be careful in moving to name and shame those responsible for breaches in the banking and financial services ind...
The days of the major banks competing for major wealth management assets are gone due to a combination of indifferent financial results and regulatory and reputational ri...
With the passage of the Professional Standards legislation, the major employers have already set about de-risking their planning exposures, Mike Taylor writes....
ISA has used APRA figures to argue against banks’ efforts to change the governance model of non-for-profit funds by pointing to the outperformance of industry funds....
The ABA has published a reference check to help stop advisers with poor conduct from moving around the industry as part of a new initiative....
The banking industry is looking to extend its financial planner reference checking protocols to other bank employees but is struggling with the concept of a bank employee...
The banks-sponsored Sedgewick Retail Remuneration Review has revealed a banking sector reluctant to apply FOFA norms to mortgage brokering lest they lose market share....
Small and regional banks have been found to be the highest-performing in Australia when ranked on issues related to customer satisfaction....
Financial planning business broker, Paul Tynan suggests the major financial institutions may have misjudged the complexity of delivering financial advice....
Mutual bank clients were more satisfied than the Big Four's customers, as their satisfaction fell on the back of home loan dissatisfaction. ...
The only thing stopping bank-owned fund oligopoly in super are not-for-profit funds, Industry Super Australia believes....
Industry Super Australia has signalled it is more concerned about banks than planners in the post-Future of Financial Advice world....
There can be no more grievous indictment of a service provider than that they continually charged for a service that was never provided....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....