Jason Falinski

People & Products

Former Liberal MP Jason Falinski has taken up a role on the board of a Queensland property company....

Policy & Regulation

Independents triumph over Liberal candidates

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has most likely lost his seat in this year’s Federal election while Liberals Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson, chair and former chair of the House ...

Superannuation

Falinski questions QSuper court case

Liberal MP, Jason Falinski, has used a superannuation Parliamentary hearing to ask why QSuper failed to notify its members of changes to its deed structure following cour...

Superannuation

NAB questions growing dominance of super funds

As superannuation funds grow in assets, NAB chief executive, Ross McEwan, is concerned they will hold excess influence over firms as large shareholders in the future....

Financial planning

How the AFA spends its cash

Around 12% of the association’s expenditures in FY21 has been on advocacy of financial advice which has been a “huge undertaking” due to overwhelming regulatory reform me...

Financial planning

Regulator and industry super to blame for advice accessibility?

Liberal members Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson have concluded the corporate regulator and industry super funds are beneficiaries of Australians being unable to access fina...

Financial planning

Parliamentarian calls 100-page SOA ‘absurd’

A 100-page statement of advice to satisfy lawyers has been branded as ‘absurd’ from a parliamentarian....

Financial planning

Rise in financial advice costs ‘distressing’: Parliamentary committee chair

Many of the remaining Hayne Royal Commission recommendations will do nothing more than harm and damage ordinary Australian consumers, a member of a parliamentary committe...

Superannuation

Super funds to list payments to industry bodies

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will start collecting data on annual payments to industry associations by registrable superannuation entities from 1 July, ...

Policy & Regulation

Hayne failed and APRA failed on industry funds

A Parliamentary Committee has found that the Hayne Royal Commission failed to adequately scrutinise industry superannuation fund structures and the Australian Prudential ...

Financial planning

ACCC would investigate advice within super, if only someone asked

Politicians and financial advisers may see the actions of superannuation funds in denying members the ability to pay external advisers as an issue, but no one has filed t...

Financial planning

Are advisers shunning clients with less than $1 million in investible assets

A Parliamentary Committee has heard questioning around whether regulatory costs are now so high that financial advisers will not take on clients with less than $1 million...

Financial planning

ASIC explains what justifies calling advisers ‘advisers’

The wrongdoing may have little to do with the provision of financial advice but the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) believes that if misdeeds are ...

Financial planning

ASIC 'very supportive' of quality limited advice

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared its support for the provision of good quality limited advice while rebutting Government back-bench sugge...

Policy & Regulation

Without legal definition assets consultants are in the clear

Financial advisers may be significantly constrained in using the term “independent” but asset consultants are largely in the clear because asset consultation is not a leg...