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FSC Annual Conference kicks off August 5

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... The theme of this year's conference is 'visualise' so the Financial Services Council's is looking forward to what the future of the financial services industry will look like. The program allows delegates to hear the latest trends affecting the industry ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... going back 10 years, paying interest on the money and fast-tracking hardship cases," he said. Reflecting on what the future of the industry might look like, Narev committed the Commonwealth Bank to continuing to focus on advice. "The forces of technology ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... standardised tool across the advice space, as it can be can be branded at the practice level - which suggests the mobile future of financial advice will be more about centralised, standardised services than individual advice practices coming up with ...

Forward-thinking advisers benefit from opt-in deadline

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
ASIC's "facilitative approach" to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) opt-in and fee disclosure statement requirements ends today, but forward-thinking practices have nothing to worry about. The deadline was originally June 30, 2014, but it was extended ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... banning other volume-based payments from 1 July 2016, with appropriate grandfathering arrangements, consistent with the Future of Financial Advice laws. Life insurance companies will also have to offer fee-for-service insurance products to support advisers ...

FPA pushes for three-year opt-ins

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... pushing for member clients to receive three-year opt-in notices rather than the two-year arrangement proposed in the Future of Financial Advice reforms. Speaking to Financial Standard, FPA chief executive Mark Rantall explained that the FPA code - for ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform is one of the 20 most challenging pieces of regulation globally, according to a survey of 600 compliance professionals across the world. The 'Cost of compliance 2015' report by Thomson Reuters asked compliance ...

BlackRock hires mark entry to fundamental equities

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... of alpha strategies, Asia Pacific. Justin Arter, country head of BlackRock Australia said: "It is important for the future of BlackRock Australia that we participate in all the major investment areas of our clients, and fundamental equities is a core ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... billion self-managed super fund market, for example," Laidler said. He explained that it also makes sense in a post-Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) where advisers don't receive commissions for investments. At the same time, investors become more aware ...

Super rules for women still unclear

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... government, Fairfax Media reports. In 2014 the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) released a report, The future of Australia's super: a new framework for a better system, and Greens MP Adam Bandt took up one of its recommendations ...