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Premium eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... This follows a submission from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that found 85 per cent of Australian financial advisers are associated with product ...

FPA meets with Capstone on remuneration

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... network's planners with further information on the proposed changes and also the FPA's submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee. "We want our advisers to be on the front foot in managing change. Practices that are slow to adapt to necessary changes ...

Make advice tax deductible: IFSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... the total amount of advice fees collected represents $2 billion a year. In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Brogden said IFSA supports raising regulatory standards to ensure licensees and authorised ...

FPA and AFA call for reform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... advisers to be members of a professional body. While the FPA and AFA made separate submissions to the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry, both associations noted some common recommendations. Aside from a push for financial planners and advisers to ...

CHOICE wants commissions banned

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... said Freeman. As part of the campaign, CHOICE is calling on the public to file a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. The committee launched an inquiry three months ago to review financial products and ...

Joint Committee has consumer loans in its sights

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' inquiry into financial products and services will include a review of banking products. Reflecting the transfer of oversight of consumer finance to the Commonwealth, which will ...

No more sustainable investment roadblocks: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... return, such as proxy voting and informal engagement with management. He did note, however, that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, as recently as June 2006, questioned the financial definition of 'best interests' ...

FPA calls for regulation of property investment advice

... available to financial investors. The FPA made the comments as part of giving evidence on Friday to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into Commonwealth Regulation of Property Investment Advice. Prior to ...