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Features

There are three pathways that consumers take when seeking financial advice and firms are exploring how to best access these, writes Oksana Patron....

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Financial planning

One of the most important ways to measure the success of the advice is the number of clients who have acted on advice given, according to Industry Fund Services....

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Financial planning

What would financial advice look like if it was unconstrained by the existing regulatory regime? The industry funds want to find out....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has admitted that the structures surrounding Industry Super Australia and Industry Fund Services have precluded it finding ...

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Financial planning

Industry funds are urging more clarity from the regulators on what can be delivered via limited and intrafund advice while canvassing the ability to bill members in three...

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Features

​As a part of its wealth management series, Money Management speaks to financial planning groups and asks them to share their views on the industry in a new environment. ...

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Financial planning

The deputy chair of a key Parliamentary committee has pointed to claims that AMP Limited is charging product manufacturers as much as $22,000 to be included on an approve...

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People & Products

Industry Fund Services and Advice RegTech have partnered to launch human-assisted machine learning artificial intelligence platform SAMI to help with automated regulatory...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia wants unions and industry funds empowered to act as agents of the Australian Taxation Office to pursue employers who don’t meet their superannuat...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by imposing a penalty on HostPlus based on the commercial links and consequent service agreemen...

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Financial planning

Two major industry superannuation fund groups have signalled they are advocating for a relaxation of the rules which have “hamstrung low cost simple advice”....

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Financial planning

Industry funds body, Industry Fund Services has admitted to the Royal Commission that it, too, had to deal with its planners receiving conflicted remuneration including g...

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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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