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Financial planning

The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, faces a fight from the financial planning industry as he seeks to move forward on implementing a Royal Commission recommendation banning t...

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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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Expert Analysis

Life insurers need to improve their models and invest in automation if they want to ‘future-proof’ their business, writes Chris Powell....

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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 deduction of financial advice from member’s superannuation accounts is reasonable, according to actuarial research house, Rice Warner....

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Financial planning

Morgan McKinley has released their 2020 Salary Guide, which showed the latest renumeration insights in the financial services industry. ...

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Financial planning

Affected clients will be among the first to know when licenses detect advisers who have done the wrong thing under new legislation to go before Parliament....

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Financial planning

Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....

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