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The Government has been told it established AUSTRAC for its own purposes and that it, not the industry, should foot the bill....
Financial planning
Sentiment among Australian financial advisers appears to be recovering from the initial negativity generated by the Government’s announcement of the Future of Finan...
Financial planning
The regulators should ensure that non-institutionally aligned dealer groups remain competitive so that advice is not dominated by the banks and industry funds, according ...
Financial planning
Financial advice issues are still a significant factors in complaints handled by the Financial Ombudsman Service....
Editorial
With the Gillard Government believed certain to impose client 'opt in' arrangements on financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that some serious questions are being asked ...
Policy & Regulation
Academic claims ASIC got fiduciary duty wrong and really meant ‘best interests’....
Financial planning
Former High Court judge and patron of the SPAA, Sir Anthony Mason, believes intra-fund advice should be subject to the same fiduciary duty obligations as full advice....
Financial planning
Superannuation funds find it difficult to communicate with members on an opt-in basis....
Financial planning
The FPA has described recent comments from sections of the trade union superannuation movement advocating an opt-in payment structure for financial advice as ‘alarm...
Financial planning
A Money Management survey has suggested the cost of opt-in will not be cheap and it will be carried by clients....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced a plan that will see its Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FchFP) designation positioned into a pathway t...
Financial planning
The consequences of breaching fiduciary duty under the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms could be much steeper than first thought, with the pos...
Financial planning
Industry Super Network uses more research to pressure Govt on annual opt in....
Financial planning
Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group (MBFSG) has reappointed Mercer to provide investment research and consulting services for the next three years....
Superannuation
Expanded intra-fund advice would not compromise the quality of financial advice Australians receive because it is governed by the same rules and regulations as other advi...
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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,...