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Superannuation

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has signalled she will move rapidly on exposing superannuation to victims of crime and other compensation c...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has appointed members to the Financial Services and Credit Panel, which it will draw upon when forming sitting panels....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has provided the industry just 14 days to comment on the establishment of the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Institute of Company Directors has criticised the Bank Executive Accountability Regime as representing an erosion of the rights of corporate boards....

Policy & Regulation

Consumer group Choice has joined with the Consumer Action Law Centre to argue the Bank Executive Accountability Regime should be extended to all financial services execut...

Funds management

New corporate collective investment vehicle might help improve the international competitiveness of Australian fund managers, according to KPMG....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that seven years after AMP Limited acquired AXA Asia Pacific, IOOF has moved from bit-player to dominant non-institutional wealth organisation....

Life/Risk

A life insurance policy lapse is not the issue but rather if the advice given was poor, according to a panel....

Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has claimed industry and profit-to-member funds will be disadvantaged by RG97 because of the nature of their asset all...

Life/Risk

The insurance sector faces systemic difficulties dealing with mental health coverage, the Actuaries Institute has found....

Superannuation

Euroz will deliver increased services including managed portfolios on the back of a white label platform agreement with HUB24....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasury has confirmed that the Government’s determination to set up a one-stop-shop external dispute resolution scheme will end up costing stakeholders, incl...

Financial planning

The AFA’s whitepaper may not be the answer to the new educational framework but the association has made it clear it wants to sit at the FASEA table and be consulted....

Property

Perpetual and Infrastructure Partnerships Australia have released a report that showed political risk as a major concern for infrastructure investment....

Editorial

University of Wollongong academics Shantha P Yahanpath and Shan P Yahanpath argue that there is a better way for financial planners to approach wealth management....

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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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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...

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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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