The industry funds are seeking to play the consumer protection card in their defence of the default funds under modern awards regime but the real beneficiaries of the sta...
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...
The major industry funds groups want ASIC to receive better budgetary resourcing to regulate financial planners....
The Australian Bankers Association has defended vertical integration claiming many super funds are vertically integrated too....
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 Australian Labor Party has now made it clear that FOFA is a totem policy issue and that it will not be relenting in resisting any Government changes. ...
If Storm Financial has dogged the reputations of financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that the findings of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corrupti...
Lonsec/SuperRatings data points to value in industry funds more willingly linking with financial planners....
Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...
Industry funds are as vertically integrated as anyone else and are guilty of hypocrisy when criticising such structures, according to Fiducian platform head, Patrick Jack...
Industry superannuation funds are continuing to outperform bank-owned alternatives, new data from SuperRatings reveals....
Concerns are being raised over alleged rorting of industry superannuation funds, following comments attributed to former NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa....
A senior Liberal Senator has asked ASIC whether union-based superannuation liaison officers are providing advice....
Esuperfund Pty Ltd has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices in relation to “false or misleading” online advertising....
The misdeeds which occurred within Commonwealth Financial Planning have become a stalking horse for those seeking to prevent any amendments to FOFA....
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....