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New research has pointed to rising competition from new and cheaper products driving down funds management fees....

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Funds management

Contango Microcap’s new board has decided to reduce directors’ fees with immediate effect....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is pointing to a final figure of $200 million being returned to consumers from its ‘fee for no service’ remediation p...

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Funds management

Platinum Asset Management has announced changes to its product fees, and plans to launch two new ETMFs in August....

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Funds management

Private equity funds have urged ASIC to address “flawed implementation” of new fee disclosure requirements....

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Funds management

Low cost passive FUM has grown by 271 per cent, but IOOF has warned advisers to look beyond costs to achieve clients’ objectives. ...

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Funds management

In the low return world, fund managers needed to move toward waiving management fees and only charging out performance fees, according to Harvest Lane Asset Management. ...

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Financial planning

Members of the Financial Planning Association have been granted ASIC relief from opt-in if they sign up to the FPA’s Professional Ongoing Fees Code....

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Editorial

There can be no more grievous indictment of a service provider than that they continually charged for a service that was never provided....

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Financial planning

ANZ, NAB, CBA, Westpac and AMP licensees have paid around $23.7 million in refunds for fees charged without the actual provision of advice, with the refund total likely t...

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Financial planning

Westpac has refunded $9.2 million to affected clients after failing to waive bank account fees on its branded savings and transaction accounts....

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Financial planning

ANZ Bank will refund $28.8 million in fees to more than 390,000 customers for failing to disclose when periodical payments would apply....

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Features

More boutique managers are setting up shop as they look to get away from the lack of individuality and constraints of larger institutional fund managers, Jassmyn Goh find...

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People & Products

Nikko Asset Management has reduced some management fees on its Australian Share Income Fund, and grown its retail sales team....

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Financial planning

Dealer group Synchron has won a key legal battle securing the exclusion of commissions and fees on behalf of advisers from the calculation of payroll tax....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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