GRANDFATHERING

Financial planning

The Federal Government has released the regulations which it claims will ensure grandfathered commissions lost to advisers will be directed to clients....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has restated its position on a three-year phase-out of grandfathering, claiming that commissions have led to some consumers paying impl...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged the Federal Government to allow clients to opt-in to grandfathered arrangements and to carve-out particular products such ...

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Financial planning

Platform provider HUB24 has pointed to some positives from the removal of grandfathered commissions....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has formally acknowledged that it has no hard data on grandfathered commissions or how much money is tied up in such ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners are braced for the reality of a flat fee for service world, with most indicating they expect that to be their major source of revenue in the aftermath ...

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Financial planning

New analysis produced by research house Dexx&r has starkly revealed the dollar impact of removing grandfathering, with billions of dollars in superannuation funds under m...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has committed to a timetable to ending grandfathering and to entertaining life/risk commissions being further reduced....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited has told the Royal Commission that while legislating to remove grandfathered commissions carries constitutional risks, it favours transitioning away from gran...

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Financial planning

After Royal Commission testimony revealing banks charged deceased clients fees, the Australian Banking Association has announced reforms to the Banking Code of Practice t...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has announced it will rebate grandfathered commissions to Commonwealth Financial Planning customers....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has defended life/risk commissions and grandfathering while criticising the Royal Commission’s interim report, claiming it suggests ...

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Financial planning

Major superannuation industry body, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, says that grandfathered planning commissions should be outlawed after a 12-month...

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Financial planning

ASIC deputy chair, Peter Kell, has admitted to the Royal Commission that while the regulator has not paid enough attention to grandfathered commissions in the past, it is...

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Policy & Regulation

Counsel assisting the Royal Commission has directly questioned why IOOF managing director, Christopher Kelaher was not appearing at today’s hearings rather than the compa...

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