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Editorial
The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...
Policy & Regulation
Tough times and lower interest rates have prompted the Government to put last year’s deeming rate changes under the microscope....
Policy & Regulation
A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...
Financial planning
Affected clients will be among the first to know when licenses detect advisers who have done the wrong thing under new legislation to go before Parliament....
Policy & Regulation
Mortgage brokers will find themselves dealing with a similar environment to financial advisers under new legislation passed by the Parliament stemming from the Royal Comm...
Editorial
Much of the commentary attaching to the first anniversary of the Hayne Royal Commission recommendations has tended to flatter what was, objectively, a flawed outcome thor...
Financial planning
The Government’s latest exposure draft legislation around the recommendations of the Hayne Royal Commission suggest little has been paid to the lobbying of the major fina...
Financial planning
How the Government proposes to approach yearly opt-in and fee arrangements is expected to be made clearer in the next week or so and financial adviser groups are bracing ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has sought to make very sure that advisers do not get negatively roped into the current debate around stamping fee exemptions....
Policy & Regulation
Superannuation fund executives and trustees will find themselves the subject to the equivalent of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime under proposals outlined by the...
Financial planning
The Government has taken the first step towards imposing a compensation scheme of last resort on the financial advice sector, raising key questions about the future relev...
Superannuation
Legislation will be introduced next year to allow trustees to voluntarily transfer any amount of inactive low balance accounts to the tax office, spelling the beginning o...
Policy & Regulation
The four recommendations being legislated relate to mortgage brokers, consumer protection, and insurance contracts....
Life/Risk
Life insurers are struggling to sustain profitability in the face of challenging markets and tighter regulation with the Life Insurance Framework also playing a part....
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Podcast
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...