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Life/Risk
APRA warns life insurers they need to take responsibility for the manner in which their products are sold....
Life/Risk
Synchron’s Don Trapnell urges risk advisers to counter worst elements of Trowbridge interim report, including five-year responsibility period....
Financial planning
The FSI final report recommendations has singled out life/risk commissions for particular attention, urging a level commissions approach....
Policy & Regulation
The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....
Financial planning
FSGs should be part of the national register of advisers to prevent consumers getting skewed information from commercially operated websites. ...
Financial planning
Most Australians are in the dark about how much commission mortgage brokers are earning for their home loan advice, a survey has revealed. ...
Life/Risk
Rice Warner says upfront life commissions can be justified where advisers have done the hard yards on initial advice....
Financial planning
Instead of targeting commissions for life insurance products, policy reforms should revisit conflicted remuneration, which hasn’t been properly handled by FOFA, Chan & Na...
Financial planning
The financial services sector still lacks regulation that requires advisers to identify when they are providing independent advice and when they are selling products, a l...
Financial planning
Planning and accounting indsutry stalwart, Robert MC Brown, argues that hourly rates and flat/fixed fees are the answer for a planning industry mired in conflicted remune...
Financial planning
Consumer advocate group CHOICE has called for more stringency around financial advice conflicts of interest, such as asset-based fees....
Financial planning
Consumer advocate group CHOICE has called for more stringency around financial advice conflicts of interest, such as asset-based fees. ...
Life/Risk
ASIC’s upcoming report on risk insurance churn is likely to lead to further debate on removing commissions but would overlook the related costs of advice according to Syn...
Superannuation
ASIC warns on the one stop shop SMSF business model and the re-emergence of commissions....
Policy & Regulation
NSW Senator John Williams is looking forward to investigating why Labor failed to regulate commissions from industry super funds. ...
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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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...