FEES

Financial planning

Big industry fund Hostplus has detailed to a Parliamentary Committee an eight-fold increase in comprehensive advice fees over just five years....

Superannuation

The fund’s typical member with $50,000 invested in a MySuper product would see a reduction of $55 per year....

Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that financial advisers will face higher costs in obtaining a financial advice degree as a result of Go...

Financial planning

Six of Australia's largest banking and financial services institutions have offered a total of $1.05 billion in compensation, as at 30 June 2020, to customers who suffere...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has endorsed the ability of superannuation funds to obtain advice services from financial planning firms underpinned ...

Financial planning

The authorised representatives are feeling hamstrung by the unwillingness of their licensees to provide appropriate fintech and regtech solutions, according to the Financ...

Superannuation

Membership fees are the lifeblood of industry superannuation funds and new analysis has revealed they appear to have taken a mighty hit from the Government’s hardship ear...

Financial planning

The Government and the regulator are showing signs that they now understand they have gone too far in driving up the cost of financial advice, according to panellists at ...

Life/Risk

The industry has an opportunity to reduce the cost of advice and to make the process more efficient and profitable for life/risk advisers, according to MLC....

Funds management

Nine of Perpetual’s fixed income funds will have their management fees reduced from 1 October, 2020. ...

Financial planning

The question is being asked about whether advisers will vote with their feet or look to self-licensing as they confront higher dealer group fees moving into 2021....

Funds management

RARE Infrastructure has reduced fees on its suite of global infrastructure funds including removing performance fees from its Infrastructure Value funds. ...

Funds management

State Street has reduced the fees on its flagship Australian and global equity funds in order to best offer value to investors. ...

Funds management

The firm is reducing its management fees across 16 funds in October to ensure its fee levels are competitive....

Funds management

Franklin Templeton will cut management fees on six of its funds from 1 July, 2020, in order to ‘deliver better outcomes for investors’ at a challenging time in markets....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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...

1 week ago

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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