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Features

There are three pathways that consumers take when seeking financial advice and firms are exploring how to best access these, writes Oksana Patron....

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Financial planning

One of the most important ways to measure the success of the advice is the number of clients who have acted on advice given, according to Industry Fund Services....

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Financial planning

What would financial advice look like if it was unconstrained by the existing regulatory regime? The industry funds want to find out....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has admitted that the structures surrounding Industry Super Australia and Industry Fund Services have precluded it finding ...

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Financial planning

Industry funds are urging more clarity from the regulators on what can be delivered via limited and intrafund advice while canvassing the ability to bill members in three...

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Features

​As a part of its wealth management series, Money Management speaks to financial planning groups and asks them to share their views on the industry in a new environment. ...

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Financial planning

The deputy chair of a key Parliamentary committee has pointed to claims that AMP Limited is charging product manufacturers as much as $22,000 to be included on an approve...

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People & Products

Industry Fund Services and Advice RegTech have partnered to launch human-assisted machine learning artificial intelligence platform SAMI to help with automated regulatory...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia wants unions and industry funds empowered to act as agents of the Australian Taxation Office to pursue employers who don’t meet their superannuat...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by imposing a penalty on HostPlus based on the commercial links and consequent service agreemen...

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Financial planning

Two major industry superannuation fund groups have signalled they are advocating for a relaxation of the rules which have “hamstrung low cost simple advice”....

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Financial planning

Industry funds body, Industry Fund Services has admitted to the Royal Commission that it, too, had to deal with its planners receiving conflicted remuneration including g...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

6 days 22 hours ago
Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

6 days 23 hours ago
Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

1 week ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 1 week ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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