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Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...
Financial planning
Differences in disclosure documents between major superannuation providers currently permitted by regulators and industry associations are making it too hard for investor...
Superannuation
The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a fact sheet on self-managed super funds, the 30th fact sheet to be released in its online Getting the Edge...
Life/Risk
Superannuation choice will put funds’ insurance offerings under the spotlight like never before, and lead to a tightening of criteria for coverage, a survey has predicted...
Financial planning
A proposal by the Federal Government to strengthen identity security measures has been welcomed by the Investment and Financial Services Association as critical to the su...
Financial planning
Fees in the superannuation industry are on their way down, according to data released by the Investment and Financial Services Association....
Financial planning
A planned crackdown of advisers in the lead up to super choice has been put into question by new survey findings, which show the majority of clients are satisfied with th...
Policy & Regulation
The Howard government has been urged to make further cuts to the tax rate for superannuation, as well as confirm funding to deliver on its election promises to the financ...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association has welcomed a suggestion by the Minister for Administration and Finance, Nick Minchin, that he is in favour of abolishi...
Accounting
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have moved to head off a further bid by accountants to get a larger...
Financial planning
Advisers and dealer groups who flout the new industry code of practice on soft dollar payments may be publicly ‘outed’ by the financial planning association (FPA)....
Financial planning
The financial services industry is one step nearer to having closure on the looming and potentially crippling cost of having to identify more than nine million investors ...
Accounting
Accountants are set to take the moral high ground over advisers on soft dollar remuneration after developing a new code of conduct that takes a much tougher stance than t...
Financial planning
The Australian Consumers Association (ACA) has refused to concede that a new survey which paints a positive picture of the financial planning industry has discredited its...
Financial planning
A double barrelled attack has been unleashed by the Financial Planning Association and Investment and Financial Services Association enforcing tough new guidelines on pay...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...