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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wounded by the Royal Commission and is out to prove a number of important points, no matter what the cost. ...
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2018 must be accepted by financial planners as having been a watershed year....
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AMP Limited’s sale of its insurance business will help it cut loose some uncomfortable legacy issues, but it remains to face into the substantial challenges associated wi...
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Even allowing for an injection of pragmatism the essential elements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority regime will remain unchanged and planners will...
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The Royal Commission’s preliminary report may be flawed when it comes to understanding the nuances of the industry but it should be accepted as an accurate reflection of ...
Editorial
The Royal Commission has laid bare appalling practices within some of the insurance call centres, making direct life/risk sales something which may bring into question th...
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The Royal Commission when combined with the Federal Election will dictate significant change for financial planners in 2019. ...
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The Royal Commission has provided great theatre but there are worrying signs that its narrow focus on the banks and AMP have seen it neglect the failings of other entitie...
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The Royal Commission has revealed the degree to which key industry players have sought to cling to pre-Future of Financial Advice remuneration structures and how such str...
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Recent history has proved that creating more layers of regulation rarely represents a panacea for problematic industries, yet the financial services is being made to pay ...
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The Commonwealth Bank’s announcement about how it will demerge its Colonial First State and other wealth businesses brings an end to an 18-year strategy, which started as...
Editorial
The unprecedented nature of the closure of the Dover Financial Services business and resultant limbo status of its clients and advisers must act as a catalyst for change ...
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The Government has been quick to express dismay at some recent Royal Commission revelations but is itself culpable for having done little or nothing with respect to legac...
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A number of the recommendations likely to flow from the Royal Commission will be viewed as unfair but the financial planning industry will need to be pragmatic if it is t...
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If financial advisers fully owned the relationship with their clients, many of the issues uncovered by the Royal Commission may have been avoided....
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