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Time to audit and consolidate Financial adviser regulation

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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Superannuation too important for tinkerers

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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Applying the brakes to the ambulance chasers

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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Govt's RC implementation deferral should become a review

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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Criticisms of life/risk advisers don’t hold water

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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ASIC’s ‘relief measures’ should be most definitely temporary

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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Don’t let early access to super become the next pink batts

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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Hayne erred on intrafund and MySuper

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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What is the real purpose of the Retirement Income Review?

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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Will the RC stand up to the scrutiny of history?

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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Time for ASIC to end the chest-beating

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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Franking credits proof that no policy is set in stone

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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Memo ASIC: It ain’t illegal to underperform

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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Leaking billions, the banks depart wealth management

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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Hayne’s findings important but not without flaw

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 ...