ROYAL COMMISSION

Superannuation

A number of corporate superannuation mandates may change hands if particular companies are named and shamed in the Royal Commission’s final report, with serious contingen...

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has told a key Parliamentary Committee that advisers can’t necessarily be trusted when it comes to giving advice around the selection of post-ret...

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Financial planning

A former dealer group head and current investment committee chairman believes the Royal Commission and the regulators have failed to identify the practices of some platfo...

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Financial planning

The risk of heightened global market volatility should encourage Australians to review their current financial plans, according to Dixon Advisory....

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Financial planning

New research has pointed to financial planners seeing themselves as being more comfortable as asset allocators rather than stock-pickers and leaning towards goals-based a...

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Policy & Regulation

Major consultancy EY has predicted both challenges and opportunities in the financial services industry in 2019 with all sectors facing greater regulatory scrutiny and fu...

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Funds management

The Australian exchange traded product industry expanded in November despite market volatility, according to the VanEck IQ Scorecard....

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Financial planning

Westpac has admitted that it did not fully appreciate the underlying risks entailed in running a financial planning business....

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Policy & Regulation

Documentation examined during the Royal Commission suggests the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority was actively considering whether pursuing litigation would answ...

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Financial planning

Victims of Financial Fraud has called on ASIC to request that the Guernsey Financial Authorities question former director of a Trio Capital fund, Carl Meerveld....

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Financial planning

AMP Limited’s new chief executive, Francesco De Ferrari has cited reviewing the firm’s business model as his first priority....

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Superannuation

A new survey has revealed strong support for removing bank-provided “general” advice from the superannuation equation....

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Financial planning

Established and well-respected advice firms have little to fear from the Royal Commission, according to a new white paper from ClearView....

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Policy & Regulation

AMP Limited has made clear it is provisioning substantially less than the $1.185 billion mentioned during the Royal Commission for client remediation....

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Financial planning

Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne has questioned whether individual licensing might be a means of ‘rolling bad apple’ advisers moving between licensees....

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

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

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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. ...

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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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