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More engagement with custodians needed: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) is urging institutional investors to forge closer relationships with custodians to ensure better outcomes are achieved. ACSA released a report describing the evolving role custodians play in Australia's ...

Separate advice and product: AIOFP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals wants product failures and financial losses from those failures factored into the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. The AIOFP said it agrees with the "general thrust" of the Compensation ...

Pro-bono advice program for bushfire affected launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... helping hand to those impacted by the ongoing bushfire crisis can now sign up to be a part of the Financial Planning Association of Australia and Association of Financial Advisers joint pro-bono advice program. The Financial Planning Bushfire Pro-Bono ...

Where to from here?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... advisers. In the first week of February 2019 that figure stood at 27,792. That's a drop of 4319 - or 15.5%. Looking back, Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Phil Kewin told Financial Standard the surprise for many advisers is how what ...

Retirement income review must focus on women: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... the proposals outlined here would do much to combat the inequality women face in later life." Separately, the SMSF Association used its submission to label self-managed super funds the "pioneer group" for the retirement income system; with SMSFA chief ...

FPA partners with Deakin University

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
The Financial Planning Association of Australia has partnered with Deakin Business School to allow financial planners to combine a Masters of Financial Planning with its Certified Financial Planning (CFP) program. It comes after the FPA signaled in ...

Industry split over super fee hike

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... caps do not impact our members as the fees our members pay are well below the 3% cap imposed by the legislation." Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy declined to comment specifically about the AustralianSuper ...

PIMCO puts Aussie LIT on ice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... investors are protected and capital markets remain efficient and globally competitive," Treasury said.. Financial Planning Association of Australia chief Dante De Gori said that FPA members currently receive about 8% of their revenue, on an average ...

SMSF data misleading: BGL

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... out ASIC over a "misleading" fact sheet it published and distributed to SMSF trustees last year. It comes after SMSF Association chief John Maroney slammed the regulator over the data used in the same fact sheet last week. BGL managing director Ron Lesh ...

Last stand for grandfathered commissions falls over

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals has failed to raise the necessary funds to mount its High Court challenge to retain grandfathered commissions. The AIOFP has confirmed the High Court challenge to fight the banning of grandfathered ...