STEPHEN JONES

Superannuation

The Government and opposition are not ruling out free financial advice from superannuation funds but not before the industry is an independent profession free from confli...

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Superannuation

Shadow assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, says he agrees with superannuation performance testing but that he will review the Your Future, Your Super benchmarking metrics...

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Financial planning

If elected, a Labor government would assume that a decade of experience was worth at least a degree and would scrap the degree requirement for those advisers....

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Financial planning

Failure to recognise advisers’ prior learning is a waste of resources, according to Labor’s Stephen Jones. ...

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Superannuation

The legislation will improve visibility of superannuation assets in family law proceedings, allowing the Australian Taxation Office to release super information in family...

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Financial planning

The opposition has backed the recommended two-year review of the bill as it can’t be “set and forget” and the Government’s management of standards reform has been a “trai...

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Policy & Regulation

The opposition says capping compensation at $150,000 instead of the $550,000 proposed by the Royal Commission is a mistake....

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Life/Risk

The Federal Opposition says it is willing to listen and be convinced about life insurance and commissions....

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Life/Risk

In a similar way to mortgage brokers, life/risk advisers are going to have to make their case if they want to retain commission-based remuneration structures....

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Policy & Regulation

A senior Federal Opposition frontbencher has fired a shot over the bows of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission warning that well-intentioned legislation ...

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Financial planning

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been criticised for ‘stalling’ over the tenure of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton following an expe...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority was built wrong from the outset, has been under-resourced and suffered from bad leadership, according to the Federal ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Labor Party has signalled its continuing suspicion of commission-based remuneration with Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones saying the advice indust...

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Policy & Regulation

Senator Jane Hume has called on the Labor Party to enable the FASEA extension to return to business after a ruling yesterday on listed investment companies. ...

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Policy & Regulation

NSW Liberal Senator and former Financial Services Council policy executive, Andrew Bragg has denied a letter he wrote to constituents on early release superannuation is t...

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

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JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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