ROYAL COMMISSION
Superannuation
The rules and definitions imposed by superannuation funds is core to the barriers to access to super faced by indigenous people....
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has put its wealth demerger on hold to allow it time to complete its client remediation processes....
Superannuation
The SMSF Association has rejected Australian Council of Trade Unions calls' for another inquiry into the SMSF sector....
Financial planning
Over a quarter of financial services workers experience extreme levels of stress, and just one in eight are highly engaged with their work, according to a new SuperFriend...
Superannuation
AustralianSuper’s chief executive, Ian Silk, has suggested that the Banking Royal Commission didn’t cast a stern enough eye over parts of the superannuation industry, in ...
Policy & Regulation
Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Professor Alan Fels has criticised the Royal Commission for failing to address the problems of bank vertic...
Financial planning
AMP Limited has yet to determine how it intends on handling its remediation obligations with respect to advisers who have left the company....
Financial planning
Banks are on track to meet their 2020 deadline to overhaul staff pay, a new report by former public service Commissioner, Stephen Sedgwick, has said. ...
Superannuation
Legislation to consolidate low-balance superannuation accounts needs to go further if it is to prevent a cycle of unintended accounts still being created and then consoli...
Financial planning
A senior dealer group chief executive has lambasted the Royal Commission’s call for a compensation scheme of last resort, arguing it is treating the symptoms not the caus...
Editorial
The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Dante De Gori is absolutely right to urge the major parties against turning the final recommendations of ...
Financial planning
CBA has expressed its total support for the Banking Royal Commission’s final recommendations and signalled how it is already acting on many of them as it seeks to rebuild...
Features
In a sea of reform recommendations for the banking and financial services sector, a looming election may see politicians skim across the surface on matters that deserve a...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association chief executive, Dante De Gori has warned that there will be a high price to be paid by the industry if the recommendations of the Roya...
Policy & Regulation
Consumer group Choice wants the Federal Government to fund a Royal Commission rectification taskforce and, furthermore, it wants recognition as a key stakeholder in imple...
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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...