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The stockbroking industry should not be targeted in ASIC’s cost recovery program as most complaints are against financial planners. ...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has pointed to the number of employers who want to do the right thing with regard to women's retirement incomes equity but are stymied by i...
Financial planning
Spring FG has denied any direct links to a planner permanently banned by ASIC....
Policy & Regulation
The FPA supports user-pays funding for ASIC but only if it is equitable across the industry....
Financial planning
The Government has been asked whether women are being appropriately represented on the boards of industry super funds....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has flagged that bank planners and vertical integration are on the enforcement agenda for 2015/16....
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has dropped the requirement that key superannuation board committees need to have a majority of independent directors....
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s new reporting standards for super funds confirm continuing bureaucratic life for planner trailing commissions....
Editorial
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...
Superannuation
APRA has stated it sees no sizeable problems around the funding of Industry Super Australia and its lobbying efforts against Government Budget measures....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC has issued a harsh assessment of how lenders are handling interest-only loans reminiscent of its critical analysis of life/risk advice arrangements....
Superannuation
The Federal Government has made changes to its legislation on superannuation fund trustee board governance but not enough to quieten all the industry fund critics....
Life/Risk
The hard-line claims handling practices of insurers are doing more damage to the viability of group insurance than the involvement of lawyers, according to a leading plai...
Life/Risk
Big insurer, TAL, has launched a new consumer-oriented lifebroker comparison tool....
Financial planning
The big banks need to freeze statute of limitation dates for customers participating in advice compensation schemes....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...