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Superannuation

The release of pre-Budget submissions suggests the Financial Services Council was influential in the Government’s decision to introduce super account stapling and perform...

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Financial planning

The future of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is expected to be made clear in next May’s Federal Budget but, in the meantime, its funding and staffin...

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Financial planning

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has condemned the Government’s proposed changes to self-managed superannuation funds structures as an estate planning vehicle and c...

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Financial planning

NSW Liberal Senator, Andrew Bragg, has stated his belief the financial services industry had too much influence over Liberal Party policy and that the Coalition was wrong...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has handed the Australian Law Reform Commission the terms of reference which will underpin a major review and possible rewrite of Australia’s financial ser...

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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has kicked off the first phase of its review of the Life Insurance Framework with the issuing of Section 33 notices t...

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Expert Analysis

Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill cautions AMP Limited against its treatment of financial advisers with respect to their buyer of last resort arrangements, arguing that such ...

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Financial planning

IOOF’s acquisition of MLC Wealth has confirmed the multi-billion dollar exit of the major banks from wealth management in Australia at the same time as handing the firm s...

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Financial planning

Major superannuation group, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has backed the increased use of advisers in helping people not only deal with retirement ...

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Financial planning

Former adviser and Royal Commission witness Sam Henderson has pleaded guilty to a ‘rolled up’ charge of dishonest conduct regarding his qualifications....

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Superannuation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reported it simply became too busy to develop a report around superannuation funds seeking to induce employers to...

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Financial planning

Breaches of the Future of Financial Advice rules will sit at the centre of class actions being formulated against the Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac and a number of t...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that less than 12 months out from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework, the Australian life in...

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Financial planning

With a mutual history within Credit Suisse, the exit of Alex Wade has seen AMP chief executive, Francesco De Ferrari lose one of his own....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that AMP Limited is facing multiple legal/regulatory issues – citing between “5 and 50”....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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