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It was during a family sojourn to the seaside town of Pescara, Italy, Rob DeDominicis first laid eyes on what would become the harbinger of his future. Andrew McKean writes.
I wonder if the report would come to the same conclusions is commissioned by SPAA or some other independent organisation?
I was thinking the same thing Peter. It is also about time articles such as this stopped referring to renewal income from product as trail income for "Advice that people are not receiving." This income is NOT for advice. As we all know, advice costs a lot of money, courtesy of ASIC and the Regulations imposed on the industry. People need to start reporting about how client's contact advisers everyday and ask questions about their portfolio...or how the client has recently had an accountant advise them to create an SMSF and now they want to know how to rollover their fund but they have insurance they don't want to lose so they can only implement a partial rollover so this requires further time and research to ensure you're acting in the client's best interest. An adviser can easily burn a few hours pulling together the necessary forms and then create a file note etc, which equates to a minimum of $300 to $400 dollars...and then some guru commissions a report from Rice Warner to say the client is not receiving anything for the money paid to advisers...come on, the AFA and FPA need to get off their collectives and do something.