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COOPER REVIEW
Financial planning
AIST warns against the 'dumbing down' of existing balanced super funds and a potential worsening of the underinsurance problem; ASFA calls for legislative support to impr...
Financial planning
The first preliminary report of the Cooper Review has pointed to a new architecture for the superannuation industry based on members rather than products, with trustees a...
Financial planning
The preliminary report of the Cooper Review has been broadly welcomed by the superannuation industry....
Financial planning
AIST calls for subsidisation of pre-retirement financial advice and tax deductibility for other advice....
Financial planning
Cooper Review urged to recommend the abolition of entry and exit fees, including the take by planners....
Financial planning
The challenges of 2009 have demonstrated the underlying strength of the super industry, writes Pauline Vamos....
Editorial
While much remains unresolved about future government policy and the ultimate shape of financial planning regulation, a good deal is already obvious. Change is inevitable...
Financial planning
A new submission to the Cooper Review has suggested that the dominance of financial planning by banking institutions is more worrying than the payment of commissions....
Financial planning
A new submission to the Cooper Review into superannuation has urged a prohibition of advice fees with respect to default funds....
Editorial
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (the Ripoll Inquiry) has delivered precisely what could be expected from a parliamentary inquiry ...
Editorial
The findings of the Ripoll Inquiry have been broadly welcomed by the financial planning industry, but as Mike Taylor reports, they will ultimately be diluted by the findi...
Financial planning
The institute of actuaries has urged the separation of advice costs as part of a broader subdivision of superannuation fund investment and administration costs....
Financial planning
The Government and the Treasury, rather than the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), should lead the way in implementing changes to the financial pla...
Financial planning
Concerns about regulatory risk will see people relying more on voluntary savings than superannuation....
Financial planning
The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen makes clear the Ripoll Inquiry will not be viewed by the Government in isolation, with much now depending on the findings...
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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,...