STEPHEN JONES

Financial planning

Advisers are being “left in limbo” by the lack of confirmation of the experience pathway with FPA chief executive, Sarah Abood, expecting to see certain constraints added...

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Policy & Regulation

Organisations have welcomed the Albanese Labor government and the appointment of Stephen Jones as minister for financial services with hopes for a focus on education and ...

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Outsider

Unlike most of Twitter, Outsider enjoyed Channel Nine’s great debate between Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese....

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Financial planning

Shadow minister for financial services Stephen Jones would support changes to the financial adviser exam so that Professional Year advisers could choose to sit an exam ba...

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Financial planning

Shadow minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, has assured the financial services community that Labor’s proposed ‘experience pathway’ will still be implemented i...

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Financial planning

Access to high-quality advice for consumers will be a key priority for the Labor government, according to shadow minister for financial services, Stephen Jones. ...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need a break to digest regulation and focus on their business without waiting for the “next regulatory hit”, according to shadow minister for financial...

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Financial planning

A “hard-headed discussion” is needed about the possibilities of vertically-integrated advice, according to Labor’s Stephen Jones, as he believes it is less simple than is...

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Superannuation

Pushing matters such as superannuation for housing detracted the Government from serious financial issues during the pandemic, according to Stephen Jones. ...

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Financial planning

The Retirement Income Covenant is doomed to fail if there are a lack of advisers in the industry to convince consumers’ of its worth. ...

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Superannuation

The Government and opposition are not ruling out free financial advice from superannuation funds but not before the industry is an independent profession free from confli...

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Superannuation

Shadow assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, says he agrees with superannuation performance testing but that he will review the Your Future, Your Super benchmarking metrics...

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Financial planning

If elected, a Labor government would assume that a decade of experience was worth at least a degree and would scrap the degree requirement for those advisers....

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Financial planning

Failure to recognise advisers’ prior learning is a waste of resources, according to Labor’s Stephen Jones. ...

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Superannuation

The legislation will improve visibility of superannuation assets in family law proceedings, allowing the Australian Taxation Office to release super information in family...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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