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Counsel assisting the Royal Commission has pointed to serious breaches within the major banks while suggesting many of the issues surrounding industry funds can be dealt ...
Superannuation
As the super industry faces both structural change and increased regulatory scrutiny, trustees may need to turn to third parties to help provide quality service, AFRM Cla...
Expert Analysis
Graeme Colley looks out how $10,000 savings can be fully maximised from a tax perspective when used to bolster a couple’s superannuation savings....
Superannuation
Self-managed super funds face potential issues from draft regulations that would apply SuperStream data standards to SMSFs more extensively from the end of November 2019....
People & Products
Equip has substantially increased its governance, risk and project management teams to meet member demands....
Superannuation
Australian super funds are benefiting from big gains in the US and European markets already being reflected in members’ accounts to get the new financial year off to a pr...
Financial planning
The Royal Commission has been told that the AMP Super trustee had little or no knowledge of what AMP advisers were doing in relation to recommending superannuation produc...
Superannuation
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has reiterated its call for key amendments to the Protecting Your Super legislation, which followed a Senate Economics...
Financial planning
The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has broken new ground by ordering a superannuation fund to reimburse nearly 10 years of fees deducted from a member’s account for a...
Financial planning
The Royal Commission has heard that Colonial First State paid advisers who had been receiving trailing commissions a one-off $750 fee, so they could re-engage with their ...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has warned of a likely upsurge in super complaints out of the Royal Commission and the possibility that the financial planning indus...
Expert Analysis
Bernie Ripoll writes that the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry may represent a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni...
Superannuation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has noted the absence of a ‘best interests’ obligation on employers when selecting default superannuation and the lac...
Superannuation
A key witness for NULIS and MLC/NAB, Paul Carter, has admitted to the Royal Commission that adviser contribution fees imposed by the fund were “best described as a commis...
Superannuation
The Royal Commission will examine the status of the industry funds ‘fox in the henhouse’ advertising campaign....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...