A doctor-style fee-for-service model for all advice, including life insurance, would create unsustainability in the financial planning sector and prevent specialisation, ...
ISA’s Whiteley claims the existing default funds regime is a safety net sanctioned by three inquiries, including FSI....
For some financial planners industry superannuation funds are just another product option while for others they represent an unfair playing field and an attack on the adv...
Compare the pair. It is likely these three words are some of the best known, and most irritating, among financial planners and advisers and have grated with them for the ...
Industry funds have been around since the earliest days of superannuation but in recent years have moved into providing advice and banking services bringing them head to ...
As competition continues between industry and retail funds, new research released by CoreData suggests the industry fund sector has nudged in front when it comes to brand...
Vertical integration is off the radar for the time being but may come back if amendments to the FOFA legislation are revived according to ISA. ...
The major industry funds groups want ASIC to receive better budgetary resourcing to regulate financial planners....
ISA has reiterated its calls for advisers to move with haste to a fee-for-service model, with all commission-based fees banned, including on life insurance....
Superannuation funds’ marketing budgets would be better spent on email and newspaper campaigns than on TV advertising, new data reveals....
Potential mis-selling and poor advice are likely in the forestry managed investment scheme sector if amendments to FOFA are allowed to proceed, according to Industry Supe...
The financial planning industry was simply outcampaigned on FOFA and must now look to play a longer and more strategic game....
The retirement of Matthew Rowe after two terms as chairman of the FPA represents the closing of a chapter in the organisation’s continuing evolution. ...
The ISA points to the tension between members’ best interests and shareholder returns with respect to bank-owned super funds. ...
ISA has fired a last shot across the bows of retail financial advice before the release of the FSI report calling for the “conflict-ridden, vertically integrated business...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....