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COOPER REVIEW
Editorial
While there will be plenty of discussion around policy issues this year, the realities of the political cycle mean it will be well into 2011 before financial planners can...
Editorial
Lack of appropriate investment options forces too many retirement investors into unsuitable investments. It’s time for a rethink - and the Cooper Review offers the ideal ...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has called for the retention of dealer group rebates and a self-regulatory approach to the removal of commissions from the financial planning indust...
Financial planning
Centric Wealth wants a clear line drawn between sales agents and advisers in the superannuation advice space....
Financial planning
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has signalled it will not be opposing the use of TFN matching to aid in the consolidation of superannuation accounts....
Financial planning
AXA warns that a prescriptive approach to adviser remuneration in super could prove counterproductive....
Financial planning
Australia’s major superannuation administrators are arguing that there is little margin in super administration, and that the failure of CitiStreet is proof of this....
Financial planning
Snowball Group calls for the quarantining of product provider influence from the advice in super....
Financial planning
Count warns Cooper Review on unintended consequences of subsidising advice in superannuation....
Editorial
The Australian financial planning industry has finished 2009 having successfully surmounted a number of its greatest challenges, writes Mike Taylor....
Financial planning
BT Financial Group has used its submission to the second phase of the Cooper Review to argue for cost reductions at the same time as calling for equity on intra-fund advi...
Financial planning
ASFA has urged the Cooper Review to separate out advice fees in relation to super and to eliminate commission-based remuneration....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has rejected claims by the Industry Super Network that financial advisers are putting an 'indefensible drag' on Australia’s re...
Financial planning
The Institute of Actuaries has disagreed with a central thrust of the Cooper Review – the emergence of a smaller industry made up of mega-funds....
Superannuation
A desire for greater control over their investments is the main reason cited for establishing a self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF), although there is still a demand ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...