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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is recouping millions of dollars from the industry to pay for the provision of policy advice to Government. Should th...

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Financial planning

Instead of allowing a race to the bottom in terms of the cost of providing advice, financial advisers should be accurately assessing what their advice is worth and chargi...

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Superannuation

The Government’s Your Future Your Super superannuation performance test needs a collection of multiple metrics rather than a single metric based on a narrow assessment of...

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Financial planning

The annual renewal will lead to unintended consequences which will have negative implications for financial advice practices and flow on effects in terms of extra cost an...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is pursuing National Australia Bank in the Federal Court over 195,305 instances of incorrectly charging fees and bein...

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Superannuation

The ethical fund has reduced its fees on all of its investment options on the back of a 200% increase in new members last year. ...

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Financial planning

Iress has looked to the new rules around advice fee consent to roll-out one of the first building blocks of its infrastructure as a service strategy....

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Funds management

The base and performance fee cutes follow Acadian’s decision to bring wholesale distribution of the funds in-house. ...

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Superannuation

The savings generated by innovations such as Superstream and new technology have been offset by the costs of increased regulation, according to evidence given to a Parlia...

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Financial planning

Industry funds are urging more clarity from the regulators on what can be delivered via limited and intrafund advice while canvassing the ability to bill members in three...

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Financial planning

The bank has been ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay $10 million in penalties after charging customers same-name fees which it was not entitled to and conti...

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Financial planning

Big industry fund Hostplus has detailed to a Parliamentary Committee an eight-fold increase in comprehensive advice fees over just five years....

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Superannuation

The fund’s typical member with $50,000 invested in a MySuper product would see a reduction of $55 per year....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that financial advisers will face higher costs in obtaining a financial advice degree as a result of Go...

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Financial planning

Six of Australia's largest banking and financial services institutions have offered a total of $1.05 billion in compensation, as at 30 June 2020, to customers who suffere...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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