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Superannuation

ISA claimed industry super funds have outperformed their bank-owned counterparts when it comes to median returns, after APRA released Quarterly MySuper Statistics....

Editorial

The Australian Labor Party has now made it clear that FOFA is a totem policy issue and that it will not be relenting in resisting any Government changes. ...

Policy & Regulation

Fewer Australians will be able to afford to obtain financial advice following the Senate’s decision to disallow the Government Future of Financial Advice regulations, the...

Superannuation

ASFA has changed its constitution to give itself the ability to adjust to change in the superannuation industry....

Superannuation

FSC claims industry funds are engaging in protectionsit practices by exploiting loop-holes in choice of fund legislation to deny open access to default funds under the ne...

Superannuation

Banks’ claims that the MySuper regime will adequately protect consumers “is absurd”, ISA chief executive, David Whiteley believes....

Financial planning

Lonsec/SuperRatings data points to value in industry funds more willingly linking with financial planners....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that industry fund members represent a large and largely untapped client base for financial planners to which the FPA has rightly sought to provide acc...

Financial planning

Fiducian urges its planners to differentiate themselves from bank planners....

Superannuation

Industry fund lobbyists have had a go at the big banks, saying only $13 billion of savings in bank-owned funds have moved into MySuper....

Financial planning

The FSC’s call for an industry-funded advisory board has drawn scorn from two of finance industry’s most vocal bodies....

Superannuation

Industry superannuation funds are continuing to outperform bank-owned alternatives, new data from SuperRatings reveals....

Superannuation

Legislation is needed to deal with “horrific” rorting of industry super funds, former NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa believes....

Superannuation

Concerns are being raised over alleged rorting of industry superannuation funds, following comments attributed to former NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa....

Financial planning

Ethics classes for financial planners should be fundamental to the new education standards, with self-regulation a near impossible benchmark for the profession, two indus...

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4 months 4 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

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

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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