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The Future of Financial Advice reforms will see the end of commissions and the introduction of fee-for-service for planners. Mike Taylor hosts a roundtable to discuss wha...
Financial planning
Financial Planning Association chief Mark Rantall has warned against the pricing pressures created by “over regulation”, resulting in an inflation of the cost...
Life/Risk
Treasury officials confirm that insurance commissions are outside of scope of FOFA reforms....
Financial planning
Curbing the banks’ ability to comment on their funding costs and interest rate intentions would result in a one-sided public debate, the Australian Bankers’ A...
Editorial
New legislation governing how superannuation fund trustees may borrow under a limited recourse borrowing arrangement has left a number of questions unanswered, says Bryce...
Editorial
As the Federal Treasury works to find common ground on financial services reform, Mike Taylor suggests that an examination of those being consulted raises as many questio...
Financial planning
The high cost of advice, driven up by regulatory barriers, is the main reason Australians are not seeking advice, according to Financial Planning Association chief execut...
Financial planning
Speculation has emerged about the Federal Government’s regulation of product design within the reverse mortgage sector....
Superannuation
The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) has called on the Government to explain its so-called contradicting comments regarding self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF...
Policy & Regulation
Treasury will begin targeted consultations on the implementation details of the Labor Government’s Future of Financial Advice reforms tomorrow, with a particular fo...
Policy & Regulation
The FPA and the Association AFA are confident that the industry has the ear of Treasury as the consultation around the Future of Financial Advice reforms has resumed....
Financial planning
Some of the proposed reforms are either unnecessary or incomplete and will not fix the core issues facing the financial services industry, according to the Boutique of Fi...
Financial planning
With the issue of the nation's Government seemingly settled for now, FoFA reforms and Cooper Review recommendations will likely go ahead en masse, according to according ...
Financial planning
There is not enough detail about the annual opt in reform to take a stand for or against it, although it may be appropriate for ‘inactive’ clients, according ...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers is pushing ahead with a lobby group aimed at defining the ‘nuances’ of proposed regulatory reforms to the advice industr...
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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,...