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Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... NAB and financial services giant AMP have lifted their education requirements for advisers. This followed intense public debate on raising professional standards. The Beddoes Institute found that trusted advisers perform significantly better across key ...

Who should be in the 2014 #fsPower50?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... Power 50 (#FSPOWER50) : our list of 50 financial services professionals who use social media to wield influence and stir up debate on financial matters. These individuals are the innovators, influencers and news-breakers who use their online clout to ...

New masters of universe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... know that it's futile fighting central bankers. Central bankers are the new masters of the universe. We can speculate, debate, argue what central bankers should do until the cows come home to roost (pardon moi for the mixed metaphor), but at the end ...

Instos offer advice at a loss to drive product sales: EY

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions have undervalued advice for decades by offering it at a loss to lead clients into product sales, Ernst & Young (EY) have said in their submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). EY argued that decades old industry ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Superannuation fees have been at the centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... advisers are also common demands among the more than 6,000 submissions to the second round of the FSI. Other points of debate are increasing ASIC's powers to immediately ban financial planners that are not providing proper advice, as well as changing ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The members of Parliament voted following a long debate where the Coalition outlined its position in favour of the reform, while Labor and the Greens opposed the government's ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... the amendments of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) bill into the House of Representatives, reigniting the political debate around financial planning legislation. The government's move follows the opposition's failed attempt to disallow the proposed ...

Actuaries Institute to advise FSI on longevity

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
The Financial System Inquiry has enlisted the Actuaries Institute to advise it on possible product solutions that deal with the challenge of longevity. In its submission to the FSI, released today, the Actuaries Institute states: "The Institute is assisting ...