Financal Planning Association chief executive, Mark Rantall, says nobody should underestimate how much assistance some advisers will need adjusting to the post-Trowbridge...

The AFA announced a life insurance roadshow for insurance advisers after they indicated they need support to move from upfront to hybrid commissions....

Superannuation funds have strongly queried whether people who supply super funds should be excluded from being deemed “independent” for three years....

The AIOFP has claimed it was locked out of tri-party discussions around life insurance commission and has called for the full submission to be publicly released....

The FPA has rejected claims by the AIOFP that its members were not consulted and that institutions shaped its proposal on life insurance commission changes....

The AIOFP has called for a shorter claw back period, 70 per cent upfront commissions with partial retention upon early termination and restrictions on advisers who churn....

Research has found advisers will attempt to offset changes stemming from the new life insurance commission regime with improvements to business efficiency or expanding th...

The AIOFP has labelled the tri-party life/risk commission regime changes as a sell out of advisers and will submit its own amended regime model this week....

Synchron has the major insurers tendering on a level premium, set-term remuneration model as it argues that claw-backs can be unfair....

ASIC has acknowledged that newspapers headlines were wrong about planners taking big commissions to recommend residential property investments and that not one planner co...

The Financial Services Council has pointed to Trade Union Royal Commission assertions as the basis for breaking the nexus between superannuation and industrial relations....

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox, acknowledges leadership of AMP on life/risk changes but urges continued pursuit of a unified position....

While some industry super funds have been highly critical of planner remuneration based on asset-based fees, new analysis suggests declining membership and rising costs m...

More than 40 per cent of life/risk advisers would consider exiting the industry if the Trowbridge recommendations were implemented in totality....