vertical integration

Financial planning

Is the PC’s vertical integration definition too narrow?

The Financial Services Council has urged the Productivity Commission to broaden its “very narrow” definition of vertical integration to make its recommendations more appr...

Financial planning

ASIC points to inherent conflicts in vertical integration

A new Australian Securities and Investments Commission report has repeated the regulator’s contention that vertical integration gives rises to inherent conflicts of inter...

Outsider

MLC’s life beyond the vertical integration scenario

Sometimes Outsider walks into a room and he feels right at home. MLC Life’s 130th Anniversary Dinner at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art was just such an occasion....

Financial planning

Fintech a vertical integration disruptor – ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft has pointed to financial services technology as being a disruptor of vertical integration....

Policy & Regulation

Vertical integration placed under PC microscope

Vertical integration in the financial services industry will be the subject of scrutiny by the Productivity Commission....

Policy & Regulation

Govt accused of failure on vertical integration

None of the Government’s recently-introduced legislative reforms, including those around the Life Insurance Framework, have adequately addressed the problems created by v...

People & Products

Fiducian acquires another planning practice

Fiducian Group has continued to implement its strategy with the acquisition of another financial planning practice....

Financial planning

Self-licensing riddled with risks

Advisers transitioning away from vertically integrated models should consider a co-operative group instead of self-licensing to avoid inherent risks. ...

Editorial

ASIC’s concerns on vertical integration and best interests

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has left Federal Parliamentarians in no doubt that it has concerns about the compatibility of vertical integration wi...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC warns on vertical integration and APLs

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that while open APLs might help, the benefits will be undermined by vertical integration and conflicts of ...