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...

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...

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...

Financial planning

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

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...

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...

Funds management

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

Financial planning

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

Policy & Regulation

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

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....

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

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

Financial planning

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

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....

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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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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