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Financial planning
Licensees identified by the Royal Commission as having done the wrong thing will escape the tougher penalties recommended by the Australian Securities and Investments Com...
Editorial
The Government has been quick to express dismay at some recent Royal Commission revelations but is itself culpable for having done little or nothing with respect to legac...
Expert Analysis
Col Fullagar tells five short stories that may be suitable as bedtime reading for those interested or involved in the Royal Commission....
Financial planning
The buyer’s market for financial planning practices and premium valuations of 3.2 to 3.5 times may be coming to an end with a new analysis suggesting ageing, trail-relian...
Superannuation
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has urged the Royal Commission to take a look at the issues raised in the Productivity Commission’s latest ...
Financial planning
It would be foolhardy for non-bank advice firms to think that they are not the next focus of the regulator, according to the Fold Legal....
Financial planning
The Royal Commission has convinced one in four Australians to either change banks or consider doing so, according to an Essential Media poll....
Financial planning
Questions are being asked around why the financial planning community is being blamed when the Government has done little about legacy products in nearly two decades....
Financial planning
As the financial services industry increasingly professionalises, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia has launched its first internationally-recognised profes...
SMSF
Self-managed super funds appear to have been turned off investing in large institutions such as the Big Four banks by the Royal Commission, according to SelfWealth chief ...
Financial planning
Victims of Financial Fraud has called for Greg Medcraft be recalled from overseas to front the Royal Commission, saying that ASIC “pursue[d] family-owned advisory firms t...
Financial planning
In an attempt to differentiate itself among the other four class actions already launched against AMP, Slater and Gordon has announced that it offers the best value to cl...
Editorial
A number of the recommendations likely to flow from the Royal Commission will be viewed as unfair but the financial planning industry will need to be pragmatic if it is t...
Expert Analysis
Geoff Rimmer looks at the future of the vertically integrated model, regulation, the dealer group model and dealer Australian Financial Services Licences models in the wa...
Features
Mike Taylor writes that for the major financial planning organisations the future resides in looking beyond the Royal Commission and reaping the benefits which flow from ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...