GRANDFATHERING

Financial planning

NAB/MLC sought to retain grandfathered payments within a superannuation successor fund transfer for fear of losing financial planners and their clients....

Superannuation

Consumer group Choice has called on the Productivity Commission to recommend a total ban on grandfathered commissions....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has repeated its call for a three-year phase-out of grandfathered commissions but has suggested solutions to ensure client benefit....

Financial planning

Westpac’s BT Financial Group has called an end to grandfathering, effective from October....

Editorial

The Government has been quick to express dismay at some recent Royal Commission revelations but is itself culpable for having done little or nothing with respect to legac...

Expert Analysis

Banning grandfathered commissions without first having a definitive policy objective speaks to ideological and simplistic motivations, writes Phil Anderson....

Financial planning

Questions are being asked around why the financial planning community is being blamed when the Government has done little about legacy products in nearly two decades....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has described calls for the banning of grandfathered commissions as “simplistic and ideological” and has suggested they are premised...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed the finger at financial services companies seeking to cling to old regulatory regimes, arguing that legal...

Financial planning

New data confirms that the loss of grandfathered commissions hardly compares with the impact of planners losing life/risk commissions....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has defended the retention of grandfathered trail commissions, arguing they don’t equate to ongoing service or fee for no service....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has told the Royal Commission that grandfathered trail commissions equate to ongoing fees....

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