Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe says the insurers know the identity of the churners and it should be left to the market to decide remuneration....
The Grattan Institute claims super fund members are paying around $6 billion to much in super administration and investment fees....
A survey has revealed the depth of feeling around the final Trowbridge recommendations and the need to lift the Initial Adviser Payment....
Copies of the FSC’s Trowbridge submission are being circulated by advisers as they continue to worry about the final recommendations....
Life Insurance Advice Working Group chairman, John Trowbridge, has defended the manner in which he dealt with the final report recommendations and denied any change of ma...
Another bout of negative publicity has reinforced the need for better differentiating the various sectors of the financial services industry....
Frydenberg warns life/risk industry on Trowbridge - initiate your own reforms or lose control of the outcome....
Despite claims of an 11th hour change in mandate, defenders of the Trowbridge Report say he decision to make the final report the sole work of its chairman was flagged in...
Trowbridge recommends level commissions, an Initial Advice Payment of no more than $1200 and a five-year rule....
The Australian Securities and Investments Commisison may sit at the centre of how key Trowbridge recommendations are imposed....
APRA deputy chairman, Ian Laughlin claims life companies have pursued questionable practices in their pursuit of adviser business....
Documents tabled in Parliament reveal NAB saw no commercial case for pursuing the removal of upfront life/risk commissions. ...
ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....
The FSC has bluntly challenged Treasury’s claims on the cost of superannuation tax concessions....
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
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....