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The Minister for Finance and acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann has cautioned against a one size fits all approach to the advice regulatory settings....
Financial planning
The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....
Policy & Regulation
Claims that the major banks are seeking the reintroduction sales commissions for financial advices and compulsory super, are misleading the Australian Bankers’ Associatio...
Financial planning
The FSC claims the cost of providing financial advice has risen 33 per cent post-FOFA and the Government’s amendments will reduce this by a third....
Financial planning
The AFA has restated its wariness about the general advice exemption at a Senate hearing. ...
Financial planning
The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....
Financial planning
Consumers face additional fees and charges of up to $530 million a year if the Federal Government backs proposals to reintroduce commissions, a report from Rice Warner re...
Financial planning
Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....
Financial planning
ISA chief executive, David Whiteley, has accused the major banks of lobbying for the return of sale commissions for financial advice....
Financial planning
The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....
Financial planning
FPA uses Comm FP’s continuing troubles to restate case for separating product from advice....
Financial planning
The Institute of Managed Account Providers will be telling planners about their options in a national roadshow starting in June. ...
Editorial
With traditional asset choices no longer offering the portfolio diversification they once did for Australian investors, Alexander McNab makes the case for alternative ass...
Financial planning
Questions are being raised over financial advisers’ focus on traditional products, with a survey showing more than half of respondents viewed specialist risk as a priorit...
Policy & Regulation
Despite the efforts of licensees to promote succession planning, only a fifth of financial planners have a comprehensive roadmap in place, a survey has revealed. ...
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