FINANCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION

Financial planning

At the recent Investment and Financial Services Association conference, Money Management conducted a round table in which inndustry leaders canvassed various issues facin...

Superannuation

Money Management's round table at the Investment and Financial Services Association conference also considered the future of Australia's Superannuation Guarantee. ...

Financial planning

IFSA has called for full tax deductibility of financial advice at an inquiry hearing today into financial products and services before the Parliamentary Joint Committee o...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s submission to the Ripoll Inquiry has raised the stakes for the future of the financial planning industry but has al...

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Editorial

Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...

Financial planning

ASIC uses its submission to the Ripoll Inquiry to suggest more regulatory intervention and higher licensing and fiduciary standards for planners....

Financial planning

A Money Management round table of financial services industry chief executives has backed the concept of a co-regulatory model for the financial services industry....

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Financial planning

A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....

Life/Risk

One of the traditional strongholds of financial planners, insurance sales, may be under threat, with the intra-fund advice regime giving superannuation funds the power to...

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Financial planning

While trustees will have relief from FSR, clients can still sue for negligent advice....

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Financial planning

A further 22 superannuation fund trustees and 47 funds make relief applications....

Financial planning

The industry needs to work harder at managing and explaining risk for super members, while planners must determine what clients hope to achieve through their investments....

Financial planning

IFSA defends legislative requirements but says areas of financial services regime could be improved....

Financial planning

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

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 ...

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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