New data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority suggests the co-contributions regime has lost some of its initial gloss....
As superannuation fund balances rebuild to levels not seen since before the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor reflects on how little say super fund members have in the...
Colonial First State makes sure the Government is fully aware of its low-fee changes to FirstChoice....
CFS has revamped its FirstChoice Wholesale platform to offer fees lower than industry funds....
Mike Taylor reports that the former chief justice of the High Court, Sir Anthony Mason, has pointed to the legislative challenges facing the Government in delivering an e...
A panel of senior financial planners has warned that ‘opt-in’ will drive up costs and abrogate the fundamental relationship between advisers and clients....
The new lobbying group AusFIN may present a united front for consumer groups and the industry super funds, but Mike Taylor writes that a closer look at its members reveal...
A Money Management survey has suggested the cost of opt-in will not be cheap and it will be carried by clients....
The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...
Questions have been raised about the motives of industry superannuation funds offering financial planning services, with the industry defending itself against suggestions...
A Ballarat planner has warned the Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, that transition to retirement pensions may be ticking time bombs....
Another round of research aimed at defining the attitudes of financial planners appears to have confirmed the existence of a generational divide on some of the key questi...
With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...
As the Government implements its financial services reforms throughout 2011 and beyond, it can either choose to do things the 'hard way'; or the ';easy way', writes Mike ...
Opposition reacts to Government’s response to Cooper by alleging protection of union and industry fund interests....
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...