CountPlus boss, Matthew Rowe, has forewarned shareholders to be ready to feel the revenue effects of the removal of grandfathering and product rebates but has claimed the...
Both the Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have signalled to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that the future o...
More work needs to be done on commission-based adviser remuneration in Australia because the research signals are mixed, according to wealthdigital’s Rod Lavery....
The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....
Industry Super Australia has strongly rejected Government proposals to rebate grandfathered commissions to clients arguing that it will incentivise advisers to recommend ...
Platform provider HUB24 has pointed to some positives from the removal of grandfathered commissions....
New analysis produced by research house Dexx&r has starkly revealed the dollar impact of removing grandfathering, with billions of dollars in superannuation funds under m...
NAB chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, has defended some fees for no service charged by the bank as a “process issue” rather than dishonesty, as he came under fire at the ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled it will not be pressing to ban life/risk commissions at least until after it has reviewed the effective...
Major superannuation industry body, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, says that grandfathered planning commissions should be outlawed after a 12-month...
Licensees should be required to annually report the make-up of financial services practice income so that the extent of grandfathered commissions can be properly assessed...
ASIC deputy chair, Peter Kell, has admitted to the Royal Commission that while the regulator has not paid enough attention to grandfathered commissions in the past, it is...
Trail commissions have been dealt another blow, with the Productivity Commission recommending that they be banned in mortgage broking for all loans from the end of this y...
The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Productivity Commission that clients actually do get value from trailing commissions and should be informed of that val...
New data confirms that the loss of grandfathered commissions hardly compares with the impact of planners losing life/risk commissions....
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 ...