FOFA

Funds management

Major fund manager, Platinum Asset Management has called on the Royal Commission to further scrutinise platform shelf-space fees and problematic relationships between pla...

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Financial planning

Going forward, financial planners must move to a model of radical transparency in order to retain clients and remain relevant....

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Expert Analysis

Bernie Ripoll writes that the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry may represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told the Productivity Commission that grandfathered commissions should be brought to an end as soon as possible....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has repeated its call for a three-year phase-out of grandfathered commissions but has suggested solutions to ensure client benefit....

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Financial planning

New data confirms that the loss of grandfathered commissions hardly compares with the impact of planners losing life/risk commissions....

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Financial planning

Advisers are the victims not the villains where trailing commissions are concerned with product manufacturers and licensees much more to blame for today’s problems, accor...

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Financial planning

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has been told that regulatory reform to financial planning is a work i...

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Financial planning

The Consumer Action Law Centre has urged extending the Future of Financial Advice conflicted remuneration rules to the mortgage broking industry....

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Financial planning

The existing financial planning dealer group model is under significant pressure and struggling to remain relevant, according to ClearView managing director, Simon Swanso...

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Financial planning

The Productivity Commission chairman, Peter Harris, has claimed the Future of Financial Advice increased market concentration while suggesting planners should be allowed ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for clarity in the penalty regime covering financial planning in circumstances where it appears to have evolved to become...

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Funds management

The Future of Financial Advice changes helped double the number of licensed investment companies but some are guilty of imposing higher base and performance fees, accord...

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Funds management

The introduction of FOFA reforms and the ban on commissions from fund managers to advisers have spurred ETF growth....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association claims the FOFA general advice exemptions are being misused and with consumers being placed at risk the time has come for the carve-out...

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