FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

MLC has reshuffled the executive structure of its financial advice businesses, according to MLC advice and marketing executive general manager Richard Nunn....

Financial planning

Financial planning executive Neil Younger will make a move to ANZ Wealth next month to head up practice-based financial planning, the banking group has announced....

Editorial

Some tough questions have been asked about the Industry Super Network's (ISN's) long-running television advertising in recent weeks - a number of times in the Federal Par...

Editorial

Any failure by industry super funds to out-perform retail superannuation funds over the long haul may act as a catalyst for future litigation. Mike Taylor reports....

Editorial

While many in the financial planning industry support the broad, original thrust of the Future of Financial Advice changes, Mike Taylor writes that the manner of their in...

Financial planning

The industry needs to turn its lobbying focus back towards educating consumers about the dangers of underinsurance, according to CommInsure's Tim Browne....

Financial planning

ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....

Financial planning

The financial planning industry will once again buck the trend of the wider market and experience strong levels of hiring, largely due to attrition and experienced planne...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced the appointment of Peter Kell and Greg Tanzer as the regulator’s new commissioners....

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition will seek to have the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) bills sent to a Parliamentary inquiry....

Financial planning

Choice has made clear it is lobbying the independents to back opt-in as the FOFA bills hit the Parliament....

Superannuation

The Financial Ombudsman Service will be effectively operating in the dark once the FOFA reforms are introduced, according to Argyle Lawyers principal Peter Bobbin. The cl...

Editorial

The Government has finally delivered the details of its Stronger Super package but, as Mike Taylor writes, those hoping for certainty may be waiting a very long time....

Editorial

Amid all the discussion around the recent release of the Government’s Stonger Super package, there existed the strong assumption that low-cost, low-fee MySuper products w...

Superannuation

The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

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 6 days ago

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

3 weeks 2 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

3 days 8 hours ago