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The degree to which superannuation funds comply with the regulatory constraints surrounding the new intra-fund advice regime will rely on how closely they are watched by ...
Financial planning
Premium Income Fund investors now want the Ripoll Inquiry to investigate the collapse of MFS/Octaviar in the same manner as other recent financial collapses....
Life/Risk
The Insurance Council of Australia has suggested the Government consider the introduction of a compensation fund as an adjunct to PI insurance....
Financial planning
Squabbling on the part of groups of financial planners is serving to undermine the broader interests of the financial planning industry, according to the chief executive ...
Financial planning
The increased legislative risk to the financial planning sector of late is having no adverse impact on either the demand for advice firms or their sale price, according t...
Financial planning
Dealer groups are concerned about the need to change their Australian Financial Services Licences as a result of the new rules around margin lending....
Financial planning
JANINE MACE explores the current love affair with cash, and the risks and benefits of this asset class for investors....
Financial planning
The Federal Government's move to allow superannuation funds to provide advice to members has served to unite the financial planning industry in voicing its opposition....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued class order relief that will allow super fund members to receive advice from their fund....
Financial planning
Voluntary contributions to super have all but dried up in the face of the Federal Government's May Budget and announcements from the interim Henry Report, according to th...
Financial planning
APRA researchers have again used a University of NSW colloquium to canvas some radical ideas....
Editorial
It is remarkable how many people were surprised by the comments provided to a Parliamentary committee by senior executives of the Australian Securities and Investments Co...
Life/Risk
Despite recent headway made in reducing the underinsurance problem, too many Australians are still too exposed to risk....
Editorial
When Australia was enjoying a bull property market, investors - many of them retirees - opted to put their money in mortgage funds as a way of guaranteeing a regular inco...
Financial planning
New research reveals that axing commissions will not by itself serve to reduce superannuation fees to the level desired by the Federal Government....
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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 ...