EDITORIAL

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Too many Governments have looked for quick fixes where financial adviser regulation is concerned and it is time for an audit and the removal of costly and unnecessary lay...

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There has been a good deal of policy kite-flying around superannuation but it is arguably too important for policy kite-flying. ...

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Australia’s litigation funders have, by and large, done a good job but few in the financial services industry will argue against making them rise to the requirements of h...

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The Hayne Royal Commission did not get everything right and the Government should use its six-month implementation deferral to appropriately review the things that the Co...

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With the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s review of the Life Insurance Framework just around the corner, the last thing life/risk advisers need is criti...

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The Government and ASIC were right to act on making the provision of advice to confused and worried superannuation fund members and advice clients easier, but some import...

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It is probably inevitable that some people will try to rort or manipulate hardship early access to superannuation and the Government will need to be vigilant to ensure it...

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The Government needs to accept that the Royal Commission did not get everything right and that it needs to put aside its politically expedient rubber-stamp where advice w...

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The strident voices of a number of Government backbenchers should prompt some serious questioning around the real objective of the Government’s Retirement Income Review. ...

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The Royal Commission has proved to be the biggest disruptor of 2019 but the question needs to be asked: Will it stand the clear-eyed scrutiny of history?...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has done much post-Royal Commission chest-beating about pursuing litigation but it needs to translate that tough talk...

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Strategies based on particular government policy positions should be regarded as having reliable shelf-life no longer than that of the Government which introduced them....

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Despite the populist chest-beating rhetoric from some of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s most senior executives, superannuation funds don’t breach ...

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Just short of 20 years after beginning their adventure in wealth management, the major banks have all headed for the exit, leaking billions of dollars. ...

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The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Dante De Gori is absolutely right to urge the major parties against turning the final recommendations of ...

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