Editorial

A change of minister combined with a change in ministerial advisory personnel and Government policy attitudes has altered the dynamic for the key financial services lobby...

Editorial

When regulatory change goes too far

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, will leave a legacy of significant change, but product intervention powers and a user-pays regime might ultimately prove problematic....

Editorial

Education and equal pay the answer

The inaugural Money Management Women’s Wealth event pointed to equal pay and financial literacy as being two key pillars for achieving equity in women’s wealth accumulati...

Editorial

Australia’s top 10 CEOs reap $171m

The country’s top 10 CEOs reported pay is $70 million less than their realised pay, according to the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors....

Editorial

APRA – Compare the Pair funding was fair

The industry funds’ “compare the pair” advertising campaign was the catalyst for removal of commissions and, as Mike Taylor writes, the advent of FOFA and now its underly...

Editorial

Bipartisanship needed on women’s wealth

Closing the gap with respect to women’s retirement incomes is a challenge best surmounted via a political unity ticket....

Editorial

A resort beyond PI

The idea of a last resort compensation scheme is again being canvassed in Canberra but it is something that should not occur in isolation to fixing the PI insurance regim...

Editorial

A tangled web

Those pursuing a Royal Commission into the financial planning industry need to stop spinning and get their facts straight....

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Once more into the breach

Mike Taylor writes that the reporting of breaches needs to be accepted as not only a legal obligation but part and parcel of running a financial services company. ...

Editorial

Need for super fund balance

Industry funds have criticised the Government’s move to impose one-third independent directors on superannuation funds plus an independent chair but, as Mike Taylor repor...

Editorial

Damned if they did, damned if they didn’t

Money Management’s Mike Taylor writes that, for the AFA, the whole life/risk reform process was a case of damned if you do and damned if you don’t....