ROYAL COMMISSION

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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Financial planning

Labor’s proposed Royal Commission into the banking and financial services industry represents an inquiry looking for something to inquire about, according to the Ministe...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government needs to diagnose what Australians are actually angry about before holding a Royal Commission, according to the former Treasurer....

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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Editorial

Recent federal ministerial rhetoric suggests the financial services industry has few friends in high places and difficulty in finding its voice, Mike Taylor writes....

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Financial planning

A Royal Commission will trump any Productivity Commission scrutiny of vertical integration in the financial services sector, according to Federal Opposition leader, Bill ...

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Policy & Regulation

Vertical integration in the financial services industry will be the subject of scrutiny by the Productivity Commission....

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Financial planning

Reviews into retail banking remuneration may raise awareness about the sales culture but it will not alter the product-pushing behaviour of banks and other financial inst...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that in a delicately-balanced House of Representatives there is no guarantee the Government can continue to deflect pressure for a banking Royal Commis...

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Policy & Regulation

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has cited LIF and higher adviser standards as part of the Government's agenda in preference to a Royal Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government is portraying the creation of a mega-ombudsman for the financial services industry as preferable to the lawyer’s picnic which would accompany a Roy...

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Financial planning

Bank employees want to deliver service to their customers instead of being under constant pressure to sell, the FSU believes....

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Financial planning

In opposing a Royal Commission into the banking sector, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the legal profession would be the only beneficiary while victims would not be...

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Financial planning

The FSC has urged the Government and Parliament to prioritise a list of reforms in financial services before venturing into a Royal Commission, which it said would be exp...

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