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Editorial

Claims management fees can span an ocean of contentious, sometimes confusing issues. In this first of a two-part article, Col Fullagar examines some common case scenarios...

Financial planning

The Government's final outline of its Future of Financial Advice proposals has raised as many questions as it has answered, with participants in a <i>Money Management</i>...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition will be well placed to block the Government's proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms passing through the Parliament next year, accordin...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called on the Federal Government to reconsider its proposed ban on life insurance commissions within superannuation, saying i...

Financial planning

Synchron has lashed out at the Government, the industry funds and what it sees as the 'socialist' agenda behind the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....

Policy & Regulation

The original intent of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms was to create enhanced transparency and better outcomes for investors, but this rhetoric...

Editorial

With the Government having released its FOFA proposals, Rick Cosier writes that financial planners have fallen victim to a range of blatant misconceptions that need to be...

Financial planning

A survey of life risk advisers has confirmed the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes to commissions within superannuation will have a significant impac...

Superannuation

The Government has been warned of both cost and tax implications from banning all risk commissions within superannuation....

Financial planning

New AFA research has confirmed FOFA risks escalating Australia's underinsurance problems....

Financial planning

The solution to the fees and commissions debate doesn't have to be an either/or scenario....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reiterated its calls for a level playing field for all who provide financial advice to retail clients - including the indu...

Financial planning

If the shift to a fee-for-service model does come into play next year as part of the Government&#8217;s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms, it is expected that lis...

Editorial

Another round of research aimed at defining the attitudes of financial planners appears to have confirmed the existence of a generational divide on some of the key questi...

Financial planning

The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) has put the brakes on its proposed reforms for accountants practising as financial planners....

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4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 3 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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