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Platforms to explain choice of investment products

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... compliance arrangements. They will also need to have additional policies like voting policies and policies when consumers do not opt in to continuing to receive advice and improved disclosure through a consumer warning acknowledgment. Investors will ...

Planning software not ready for FoFA opt-in hurdle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... 'opt-in' electronically. Only 21% of advisers could say for sure that they would be giving their clients the option to opt in electronically. "There is much work yet to be done in regards to advisers going through the process of identifying their 'opt-in' ...

ASIC seeks adviser feedback on FOFA code of conduct

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... for opt-in," he asked. "We expect approved FOFA codes to contain provisions that will achieve the same outcomes that the opt in requirement itself are intended to achieve, which is to engage clients who are receiving valued services for the ongoing fees ...

COIN software FoFA ready: Rubik

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. New functions have been included that allow users to meet the fee disclosure and opt in requirements of the new legislation. "Extensive changes have been implemented into COIN Office 4.0 with a focus on FoFA ...

"Bad apples" slipping through the cracks: ASIC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... scope of the FOFA legislation. "Really, this means that it will be some time before we see a code that negates the need for opt in requirements."

van Eyk calls for pay for ratings disclosure

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... ratings research model, not currently integrated into the proposed reforms. "As part of the arrangement where a client will opt in to advice fees every two years in the form of annual disclosure statements, any related payments for product ratings listed ...

Equipsuper builds intra-fund advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... members $75 (including GST) for a Member Adviser phone consultation, which also provides a Statement of Advice. "Members will opt in to the Member Adviser service, using a voice contract over the phone," said Brooks. "The launch of the Member Adviser ...

Financial PDS' 'Shortened'

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
A new proposal by Finance Minister, Bill Shorten would provide a transition period of just over 12 months for those that aren't ready with their shortened PDS this year. Starting from 22 June 2012, PDS for all superannuation products and simple managed ...

Advisers to decide opt in: AusFIN

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
Strong protests against opt in has opened the door for discussions on how advisers can avoid it through their own actions, said network of consumer, welfare, union and industry super fund groups, AusFIN. Since the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals ...

Industry funds primed for more planning deals

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... go broader than that," said Collins. "Planners will also find it harder to direct their clients to one platform with the opt in arrangements and the scrubbing of rebates so I think there will be more and more of an open market," he added. The Financial ...