ROYAL COMMISSION

Financial planning

The Royal Commission has heard that Colonial First State paid advisers who had been receiving trailing commissions a one-off $750 fee, so they could re-engage with their ...

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Editorial

The Royal Commission has revealed the degree to which key industry players have sought to cling to pre-Future of Financial Advice remuneration structures and how such str...

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Expert Analysis

Bernie Ripoll writes that the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry may represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that one of the few certainties flowing from the current Royal Commission is that the Australian financial services industry is facing further signific...

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Superannuation

The Royal Commission has been told how Industry Super Australia received $500,000 from AustralianSuper for the ‘fox in the henhouse’ television advertising campaign after...

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Outsider

On the subject of the Royal Commission, Outsider has some sympathy for Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, who has had to endure listening to some fairly impenetrable testimony ...

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Outsider

Who, within National Australia Bank and MLC, came up with the notion of “fair exchange of value” to cover a situation where members of MLC Superannuation would continue t...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Union has called on the Royal Commission to look more closely at NAB’s remuneration structures, saying it should look more closely at the “heart of...

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Financial planning

The payment of grandfathered commissions to financial planners is still very much in the gunsights of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation ...

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Superannuation

The intricate structures flowing from Industry Fund Services and encompassing Industry Super Australia will be examined by the Royal Commission, including whether some ad...

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Superannuation

A key witness for NULIS and MLC/NAB, Paul Carter, has admitted to the Royal Commission that adviser contribution fees imposed by the fund were “best described as a commis...

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Superannuation

Information provided to the Royal Commission by industry superannuation funds appears to have created a better impression than some retail funds....

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Superannuation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has already pointed to the ‘inherent tension’ in the regulatory and su...

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Superannuation

The license conditions imposed on National Australia Bank’s big superannuation business in 2017 are expected to be aired in today’s kick-off to the Royal Commission in Me...

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People & Products

IRESS has integrated its data and analytics solution with XPLAN in response to fee-for-no-service concerns raised by the Banking Royal Commission. ...

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