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Financial planning

While a fixed-term fee agreement is a valid alternative for advisers finding difficulty in the ongoing fee arrangement requirements, they need to ensure their fee chargin...

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Financial planning

The Government is allowing financial advisers to issue their fee disclosure statements 60 days from the anniversary date for the transition period. ...

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Financial planning

The cost of recovering additional funding by the Government along with the decrease in the number of advisers year-on-year has led to the corporate regulator’s licensee l...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers may still be chafing under the burden of annual fee renewals, but the Minister believes the industry has “generally reacted positively”....

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Superannuation

Choice superannuation funds have been placed on notice that unless they look to their fees and investment performance they are at risk of being painted red on the heatmap...

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Financial planning

Advisers on maternity leave, paternity or otherwise looking to work part-time are being offered a flexible fee model by Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

According to the Association of Financial Advisers, this will help make advice accessible for lower income clients....

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Financial planning

The proposal to have financial advisers registered under the new disciplinary regime will seek a fee and the registration will need to be renewed annually. ...

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Superannuation

Advice fees levied by superannuation funds are relatively insignificant when compared to administration and investment fees....

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Expert Analysis

Ausbil’s Mark Knight writes that amid all the recent talk on the rise of passive investment strategies, their active counterparts have been steadily compounding outperfor...

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Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator is suing the Commonwealth Bank for misleading conduct over its monthly access fees, which saw $55 million incorrectly charged to customers....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s three legislative instruments regarding fees and independent disclosure aims to minimise regulatory burden for the ...

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Financial planning

Independent financial advisers who are unencumbered by vertically integrated institutional models will be able to save costs with greater access to a broader platform and...

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Funds management

The asset manager is looking to focus on the superannuation sector and the top end of private wealth as it targets the Australian market....

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Financial planning

Five planning and accounting groups have united to press the Government to override the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on its proposed levy increases ci...

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