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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....
Editorial
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...
Financial planning
Industry Super Australia has told the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority that retail super funds are disguising investment costs via the use of platforms....
Financial planning
A specialist financial services lawyer has warned that any moves by ASIC to recover the costs of its investigations and prosecutions from those it convicts could end up b...
Superannuation
The Federal Government has firmed on its approach to super fund governance changes amid APRA analysis pointing to serious variability in governance standards from fund to...
Policy & Regulation
The Government has signalled its intention to eject the Fair Work Commission from default fund selection and to limit the industrial muscle of unions on superannuation is...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has pointed to the degree to which super funds are trimming and tightening TPD definitions and reducing automatic acceptanc...
Financial planning
A specialist financial services lawyer has questioned whether planners can be held negligent for not recommending SMSFs to super fund members with high account balances....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has stepped back from imposing added disclosure requirements around advice on SMSF set-ups....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC has issued new guidance giving financial services firms greater scope to use digital disclosure....
Financial planning
Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund governance changes carry with them the risk of contagion from importing finance sector norms....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC to have its capabilities reviewed by expert panel....
Superannuation
Superannuation funds have strongly queried whether people who supply super funds should be excluded from being deemed “independent” for three years....
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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...