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Advisers debate insurance commissions ban

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
Life risk advisers should avoid business structures based exclusively on commissions and start to look at ways to diversify their revenue,following the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) recommendations on life insurance and commissions. "There has been ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... board," Murray said. "Once that is in place, vertical integration doesn't matter anymore," he added. He attributed the heated debate around vertical integration to "the war which hasn't formally commenced yet, but that is still under way between sectors ...

Murray takes aim at industry culture

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... industry, "they're not necessarily life threatening but they are lifestyle threatening. "This means that there will be a debate about the culture of financial institutions, and that debate is really triggered by an underlying motive of ordinary people ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
The active versus passive debate is one that has raged for decades but with the latest figures showing a steady increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... caught up in internal party in-fighting." Labor Senator Sam Dastiary argued that "this is an important, timely and necessary debate," and asked the government to sit with the opposition to talk about the FoFA changes. "There is a reason why every single ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
In the latest edition of Financial Standard we look at the latest in the active versus passive debate as a trend towards investment in index strategies takes hold. Mark Smith considers whether the jig is up for active fund managers in this issue's feature. ...

Sally Loane new CEO of the Financial Services Council

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... ensure they can live comfortably in retirement. The second, to ensure financial services has a voice of influence in the debate on the tax and federation white papers a^' an area which is well overdue for reform. "And the third is to contribute to Australia's ...

Higher adviser education standards boost CFP demand

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... Australia Bank (NAB) and AMP have increased the minimum education requirements for their financial advisers, following industry debate prompted by several financial planning scandals and a recent Senate inquiry.

Super squabble beyond the joke: Taxpayers Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... superannuation and boost member returns by opening up the default superannuation market to competition. "I want to strip away the debate and show the Fair Work Commission default superannuation process for what it really is - a distribution channel for ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Innovation and new technologies are having a profound impact on the global recovery, helping to ease inflationary pressure and easing the pressure on the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy. That was one conclusion reached by 85 BlackRock investment ...