COMMISSIONS

Life/Risk

Former FPA chairman, Matthew Rowe says the insurers know the identity of the churners and it should be left to the market to decide remuneration....

Superannuation

The Grattan Institute claims super fund members are paying around $6 billion to much in super administration and investment fees....

Life/Risk

A survey has revealed the depth of feeling around the final Trowbridge recommendations and the need to lift the Initial Adviser Payment....

Life/Risk

Copies of the FSC’s Trowbridge submission are being circulated by advisers as they continue to worry about the final recommendations....

Life/Risk

Life Insurance Advice Working Group chairman, John Trowbridge, has defended the manner in which he dealt with the final report recommendations and denied any change of ma...

Editorial

Another bout of negative publicity has reinforced the need for better differentiating the various sectors of the financial services industry....

Life/Risk

Frydenberg warns life/risk industry on Trowbridge - initiate your own reforms or lose control of the outcome....

Life/Risk

Despite claims of an 11th hour change in mandate, defenders of the Trowbridge Report say he decision to make the final report the sole work of its chairman was flagged in...

Life/Risk

Trowbridge recommends level commissions, an Initial Advice Payment of no more than $1200 and a five-year rule....

Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commisison may sit at the centre of how key Trowbridge recommendations are imposed....

Life/Risk

APRA deputy chairman, Ian Laughlin claims life companies have pursued questionable practices in their pursuit of adviser business....

Financial planning

Documents tabled in Parliament reveal NAB saw no commercial case for pursuing the removal of upfront life/risk commissions. ...

Financial planning

ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....

Superannuation

The FSC has bluntly challenged Treasury’s claims on the cost of superannuation tax concessions....

Financial planning

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

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