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Financial planning

Indirect costs associated with the corporate watchdog’s levy has risen to $24.5 million and these costs are closely related to the increased spending on litigation fundin...

Funds management

Pendal has seen record performance fees on its Australian funds, rising 29% to $16.4 million in the most recent quarter. ...

Funds management

Vanguard Australia will remove the fee for Vanguard exchange traded funds, managed funds and the cash account on its personal investor platform from 18 August to encourag...

Funds management

In a move to expand its adviser client base, Milford Asset Management has lowered its flagship fund fee for advisers to 0.9% per annum....

Financial planning

While a fixed-term fee agreement is a valid alternative for advisers finding difficulty in the ongoing fee arrangement requirements, they need to ensure their fee chargin...

Financial planning

The Government is allowing financial advisers to issue their fee disclosure statements 60 days from the anniversary date for the transition period. ...

Financial planning

The cost of recovering additional funding by the Government along with the decrease in the number of advisers year-on-year has led to the corporate regulator’s licensee l...

Financial planning

Financial advisers may still be chafing under the burden of annual fee renewals, but the Minister believes the industry has “generally reacted positively”....

Superannuation

Choice superannuation funds have been placed on notice that unless they look to their fees and investment performance they are at risk of being painted red on the heatmap...

Financial planning

Advisers on maternity leave, paternity or otherwise looking to work part-time are being offered a flexible fee model by Centrepoint Alliance....

Financial planning

According to the Association of Financial Advisers, this will help make advice accessible for lower income clients....

Financial planning

The proposal to have financial advisers registered under the new disciplinary regime will seek a fee and the registration will need to be renewed annually. ...

Superannuation

Advice fees levied by superannuation funds are relatively insignificant when compared to administration and investment fees....

Expert Analysis

Ausbil’s Mark Knight writes that amid all the recent talk on the rise of passive investment strategies, their active counterparts have been steadily compounding outperfor...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator is suing the Commonwealth Bank for misleading conduct over its monthly access fees, which saw $55 million incorrectly charged to customers....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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