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Recent history has proved that creating more layers of regulation rarely represents a panacea for problematic industries, yet the financial services is being made to pay ...
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has had a less than stellar beginning and owes it to the financial planning industry to pick up its act and deliver a...
The Commonwealth Bank’s announcement about how it will demerge its Colonial First State and other wealth businesses brings an end to an 18-year strategy, which started as...
The unprecedented nature of the closure of the Dover Financial Services business and resultant limbo status of its clients and advisers must act as a catalyst for change ...
The Government has been quick to express dismay at some recent Royal Commission revelations but is itself culpable for having done little or nothing with respect to legac...
A number of the recommendations likely to flow from the Royal Commission will be viewed as unfair but the financial planning industry will need to be pragmatic if it is t...
For a financial services industry suffering the harsh glare of a Royal Commission, the future resides in pursuing professionalism and excellence....
If financial advisers fully owned the relationship with their clients, many of the issues uncovered by the Royal Commission may have been avoided....
The recent release of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry report into the Life Insurance industry makes clear that planners h...
As key players in recent outcomes in the financial services industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Author...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants competition powers added to its regulatory armoury, but history suggests a need for caution on the part of the ...
Mike Taylor writes that the advent of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will change the raison d’etre and commercial models of Australia’s two l...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...