Documents tabled in Parliament reveal NAB saw no commercial case for pursuing the removal of upfront life/risk commissions. ...
Rules and regulations consultation paper has brought the Asia Region Funds Passport closer to reality....
Rules and regulations consultation paper has brought the Asia Region Funds Passport closer to reality....
Industry Super Australia wants the law changed to prevent banks from ‘bundling’ services to lure employers into bank-owned super products....
New FSC chair signals change is inevitable for life/risk remuneration....
Life/risk advisers concerned at reports FSC submission urges 20 per cent flat commission and five-year responsibility period....
The FSC has urged the Government to review the targeting of the age pension, suggesting current settings are too generous....
The FSC has bluntly challenged Treasury’s claims on the cost of superannuation tax concessions....
The industry funds are seeking to play the consumer protection card in their defence of the default funds under modern awards regime but the real beneficiaries of the sta...
Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....
ISA’s Whiteley claims the existing default funds regime is a safety net sanctioned by three inquiries, including FSI....
Beyond what they see in media headlines, many consumers have no idea what a financial planner does, a wealth management veteran believes. ...
The FPA’s Matthew Rowe has questioned the survivability of a number of financial planning organisations....
The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....
The domination of industry super funds in the modern award system has left virtually no market for higher performing, lower fee funds, according to the Financial Services...
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,...