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NTAA challenge planners to cut fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Full fee disclosure and an open discussion with clients are necessary to improve the credibility of the financial planning industry, according to a planning association. A newly established financial planning association yesterday said that the financial ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... benchmark," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST. The association also recommends the development of a fee disclosure accounting standard, and the publication by APRA of more consistent and reliable data on investment management fees at an investment ...

AAT upholds ASIC adviser ban

ASIC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... basis for the advice he gave and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. He also provided clients with defective disclosure documents, which failed to disclose remuneration details concerning himself and Elite, and also various interests and associations ...

Annual renewals protect investors: ISN

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... getting blindly paying for advice they don't get any value out of. The annual opt-in process will also reinforce fee disclosure and transparency. "The annual renewal will increase consumer engagement and control. Given the poor levels of consumer engagement ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
"Same thing happened to me with wife number two, 'member? I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the house is empty, and I mean completely empty. She even took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch ...

Gillard Govt to tighten reverse mortgages rules

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... agenda, the government intends to extend protection to reverse mortgages and home reversion schemes, including more disclosure on fees and features of these products. It is also looking to introduce statutory protection against negative equity so consumers ...

Mandatory trustee pay disclosure draws debate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... Cooper Review panelist Sandy Grant questions adopting 'listed company' type governance measures, such as mandatory pay disclosure, just for the sake of having uniform standards across the board. Speaking at a Deloitte Forum discussing the Cooper Review ...

Structured prod issuers must disclose risks: ASIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... of the strategies to retail investors. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission's (ASIC) report, Review of disclosure for capital protected products and retail structured or derivative products, follows a program the regulator launched in January ...

SEC launches new divisions to protect investors

SEC RELEASES  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... that will oversee large financial institutions, asset backed securities and structured products. The newly created disclosure office will expand the SEC's review capability of large financial services companies. This means the SEC can increase the number ...

CFD health check prompts more oversight

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... understand the risks in trading the products. The research looked at CFD issuer pricing models, issuer advertising, product disclosure statements and complaints by retail investors. CFDs allow investors to bet on future changes in the market price of ...