ROYAL COMMISSION

Financial planning

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

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 ...

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....

People & Products

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

Features

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

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

Policy & Regulation

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

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...

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 ...

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’....

Policy & Regulation

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

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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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 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 1 week ago

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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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