Stephen Jones

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority was built wrong from the outset, has been under-resourced and suffered from bad leadership, according to the Federal ...

Financial planning

Advice industry needs to prove it is not conflicted: ALP

The Australian Labor Party has signalled its continuing suspicion of commission-based remuneration with Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones saying the advice indust...

Policy & Regulation

Hume calls for FASEA extension to return to business

Senator Jane Hume has called on the Labor Party to enable the FASEA extension to return to business after a ruling yesterday on listed investment companies. ...

Policy & Regulation

First real estate agents, now a Liberal Senator

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

Financial planning

Opposition: FASEA a ‘monumental mishandling’

The Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has slammed the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority along with the ...

Financial planning

VOFF accuses Labor of “politicising a crime” in Trio fraud

Aussie politicians make “politicised and dishonest decisions about ‘fraud’” despite having no law enforcement of forensic investigation skills, Victims of Financial Fraud...