ROYAL COMMISSION

Financial planning

Platform provider HUB24 has pointed to some positives from the removal of grandfathered commissions....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has reinforced its intention to prohibit the deduction of advice fees from MySuper accounts at the same time as signalling more flexibility around ...

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Policy & Regulation

The banks should offer customers independent advice on remediation or risk both a “relentless flow” of class actions and a widening trust deficit....

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People & Products

Digital advice solution provider, Quantifeed, has opened an Australian office to meet growing demand for digital wealth advice. ...

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Features

Technology can provide a helping hand for financial advice businesses adjusting to the post-Royal Commission industry landscape, Oksana Patron finds....

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Editorial

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been wounded by the Royal Commission and is out to prove a number of important points, no matter what the cost. ...

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Expert Analysis

Financial services barrister Noel Davis examines the testimony given to the Royal Commission and its ultimate findings and suggests that for as much as it discovered ther...

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Features

Oksana Patron writes that while the ending of grandfathered commissions was touted to destroy the financial advice industry, Money Management’s recent online survey shows...

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Outsider

Outsider has a list of people’s names on his desk which he believes may be similar to a list provided to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission by the Royal...

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Policy & Regulation

Mortgage Choice has taken its predicted profit hit amid the slowing property market and the uncertainties created by the Royal Commission....

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Financial planning

Following the FASEA Code of Ethics could prevent misconduct of the type uncovered by the Banking Royal Commission even though they aren’t subject to legal penalties, acco...

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Financial planning

The move to require specialist qualifications to give advice on SMSFs could come from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority within two years, according to ...

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Financial planning

IOOF appears to have contained the fall-out from an end to grandfathering and threats to life/risk commissions because of its ‘self-employed advice model’....

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Policy & Regulation

Continuing Canberra’s moves against corporate misconduct and crime, Parliament yesterday passed legislation strengthening corporate and tax whistleblower protections....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled its intention to fully implement Commissioner Hayne’s 12 recommendations to the regulator. ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks 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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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

4 days 14 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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