PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE
Editorial
In light of the numerous inquiries into financial services as well as changing attitudes to adviser remuneration, SUE VISKOVIC considers the benefits of overhauling your ...
Editorial
Reading their submissions to the Ripoll inquiry, it's clear that not only do ASIC and Treasury hold very different views, but Treasury, in particular, has no desire to se...
Financial planning
The collapse of Great Southern should serve as a salutary lesson to the industry of the dangers of single-product licensing of advisers, according to CPA Australia's seni...
Editorial
To what degree should dealer groups filter the data they receive from research houses and what impact is this having on the quality of financial advice?...
Financial planning
National Party rejects all agricultural MIS's as unfair to legitimate primary producers....
Financial planning
Ripoll inquiry urged to stop the commissions rivers of gold and impose a fiduciary duty on planners....
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers will use today's Ripoll Inquiry hearings to back Treasury warnings about unintended consequences flowing from changes to financial p...
Financial planning
The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is gauging the industry's reaction to the possible implementation of a two-tier advice system of independent and affiliated...
Financial planning
The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has acknowledged the conflicting positions of Treasury and ASIC on financial planning....
Financial planning
Only a complete overhaul of the industry that involves banning commissions and creating a profession with distinct service providers will save the financial planning indu...
Financial planning
A member of the Ripoll Inquiry expresses concern that Commonwealth Bank CEO Ralph Norris will not be personally fronting committee hearings in Sydney this Friday....
Financial planning
The Parliamentary Joint Committee has been told that the absence of tax deductibility with respect to fee-for-service advice is creating a market distortion....
Financial planning
FPA chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch tells Parliamentary Inquiry it must not focus on just certain groups....
Financial planning
It is not possible to prescribe the number of clients in a practice, according to Guardian Financial's Steve Browning....
Editorial
When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...