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Policy & Regulation
The remuneration standard comes into effect at the start of 2023 and aims to create more balanced incentive structures for the superannuation, insurance, and banking indu...
Features
The Royal Commission into Aged Care was not directed at advisers but, Chris Dastoor writes, the outcomes have implicated how clients perceive the industry....
Policy & Regulation
Consumer bodies have joined the financial adviser bodies and the Federal Opposition in voicing their displeasure with the proposed draft legislation for the compensation ...
Financial planning
The opposition has said the Government’s financial reforms have caused uncertainty and unnecessary costs for thousands of financial advisers....
Financial planning
Contrary to wider adviser sentiment, one adviser has high hopes for the industry’s future and believes the next few years will only get better....
Features
Running a financial advice practice has never been harder, Jassmyn Goh writes, and advisers must find efficiencies and restructure their revenue sources to deliver their ...
Funds management
Banks have paid more than $7 billion to customers in remediation since the Royal Commission but this ending will leave them with more available cash to distribute to shar...
Financial planning
The Federal Court has found it is liable for failing to supervise former adviser John Doyle, who became a case study during the Royal Commission....
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
The rise in financial planners selling their business after the Royal Commission has led to a financial planning consultancy firm to launch an ‘exit strategy’ program....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator is seeking consultation on the anti-hawking of financial products regime that commences in October. ...
Policy & Regulation
The opposition says capping compensation at $150,000 instead of the $550,000 proposed by the Royal Commission is a mistake....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has released its protocol around how licensees should be reference checking prospective financial advisers they wish to employ. ...
Editorial
Any further requirements by the Government for the financial advice sector to lift standards could lead to advisers and potential graduate entrants moving the occupation ...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has called for an end to the “persecution” of the financial advice sector....
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...