In a curious aside to ASIC’s appeal of the CBA/Colonial First State judgment, the judge has taken issue with the financial services industry’s use of the term ‘grandfathe...
The corporate regulator is only putting the brakes on terminating grandfathered commissions because consumers have started to realise the cost of advice has escalated due...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....
The advice network has said the grandfathered commissions are a legitimate form of income and the ban would increase the cost of advice....
A panel of senior planning group executives have told a Money Management conference that advisers should lower their expectations with respect to the value of their advic...
Can advisers convert grandfathered commissions to adviser service fees? Maybe. And the Association of Financial Advisers has provided a decision-tree to help its members ...
The Federal Government is set to introduce legislation locking in a 1 January, 2021, date for the end to grandfathered commissions....
If the Government applied the same logic to life/risk and grandfathered commissions as it did to refundable franking credits during the election, then it would be support...
Two letters sent to superannuation fund members by ANZ OnePath have revealed a significant strengthening of language about how members should go about ending the payment ...
Financial advisers have expressed concern and anger at product manufacturers who have written to advice clients informing them how to switch off grandfathered commissions...
Got an indifferent planning business with high exposure to grandfathered commissions and less than thorough paperwork? Don’t expect to be rushed by potential buyers....
Amid claims by Industry Super Australia that grandfathering should be ended rapidly and without a client rebate regime, some advisers are claiming that industry funds sal...
The Association of Financial Advisers has expressed utter confusion at why Industry Super Australia would think financial advisers stood to gain anything from the rebatin...
The Federal Treasury has been warned that politicians have failed to understand grandfathering with the result that the emotional health and well-being of advisers is bei...
The Financial Planning Association has told Treasury that it is the financial product providers who should be responsible for rebating grandfathered commissions and they ...
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,...