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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has nominated initiating a compensation scheme of last resort as one of the major challenges facing the Government in 2021. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association wants managers of advice licensees subjected to the same reference-checking protocols as advisers in circumstances where it says it has...

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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....

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Financial planning

Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has pointed to the impacts of increasing regulatory oversight with the cost of generating a statement of adv...

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Policy & Regulation

External law firms have been brought in as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission looks to wrap up referrals from the Royal Commission....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission had staff on-site at the major banks and AMP for 216 days during October 2018 and December 2019....

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Financial planning

AFA’s Phil Anderson says that despite pushback on Royal Commission recommendations to change trail commissions for mortgage brokers, advisers were still better prepared f...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has received yet more warnings that before it embarks on a compensation scheme of last resort it should fix professional indemnity insurance in circu...

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Life/Risk

Almost one-third of a survey’s respondents said life insurance products confused them and 65% of people without the product would rely on savings if they contracted a maj...

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Policy & Regulation

The tax office is imposing more educational directives where self-managed superannuation fund members have breached regulatory contraventions in a bid to prevent reoffend...

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Policy & Regulation

Mortgage brokers believe the embedding of commission clawbacks in legislation will see them working for nothing....

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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...

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Financial planning

As AMP moves to exit up to 250 financial planning business over 80 planners say they will face financial ruin as a result....

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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 ...

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Financial planning

The exits of the banks and the exodus of financial advisers has left the industry in a state of flux, according to HLB Mann Judd head of wealth, Michael Hutton....

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