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Pressure on advice practices means time for rethink: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... only lead to improved client outcomes, it'll help advisers meet their obligations under the Future of Financial Advice reforms including the best interest duty."

ASIC wins first court action for FoFA breaches

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... Corporate regulator ASIC successfully brought its first action against a licensee for breach of the Future of Financial Advice reforms in the Federal Court. Melbourne-based financial advice firm NSG Services (NSG) was found by the court to have breached ...

Product conflicts in retail banking: ABA report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... product-based payments used for retail banking staff, echoing the concerns that led to the Future of Financial Advice reforms. The report, written by former Australian Public Service Commissioner Stephen Sedgwick, has in its own words "tentatively identified" ...

CBA responds to systemic advice failures

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... including to our systems, processes, supervision and training. "In addition, following the Future of Financial Advice reforms, customers also receive annual fee disclosure statements and new customers receive opt-in notices every two years to continue ...

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... grandfathering would apply to existing arrangements "in a manner broadly consistent with [the Future of Financial Advice reforms] by ensuring that remuneration arrangements not effectively grandfathered by the Life Act... are explicitly grandfathered ...

Storm Financial investor slams court decision

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... lending investment model and subsequent collapse was considered the primary catalyst for the Future of Financial Advice reforms and led to substantial capital losses for many of its clients. The court has now found that advice given to "certain investors" ...

Government releases draft life insurance regulations

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... policies. Existing arrangements will be grandfathered "in a manner broadly consistent with [the Future of Financial Advice reforms] by ensuring that remuneration arrangements not effectively grandfathered by the Life Act... are explicitly grandfathered ...

Senate recommends immediate adviser bans following "bitter harvest"

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... advice... [and put] their own interests above those of their clients." The report noted that the Future of Financial Advice reforms "may well have remedied one of the most pernicious incentives underpinning poor financial advice" - that is, commissions ...

Parliament passes FoFA amendments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
Several key amendments to the Future of Financial Advice reforms have been passed by parliament. The Corporations Amendment (Financial Advice Measures) Bill will extend the time allowed for advisers to provide opt-in renewal notices and fee disclosure ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... fee-for-service adviser remuneration model is driving interest in managed accounts, along with the Future of Financial Advice reforms. He argues that these have created pressure on advisers to become more specialised and prove their ability to actively ...