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Advisers boost practice profitability

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Financial advisers' effort to improve business efficiency in the context of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) has paid off, as new research shows that practice profitability has gone up in the last year. Financial planners are serving more clients ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... argued. Commonwealth Bank (CBA) acknowledged that "vertical integration can result in conflicts," but noted that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform "places a number of obligations on advisers and product providers, most notably the duty on ...

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
The House of Representatives has voted in favour of the 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 ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Coalition has reintroduced 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 ...

IRESS co-founder departs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... contribution to IRESS has been enormous, but to see it only historically doesn't do justice to that contribution. The future of the business will be profoundly influenced for many years by what Peter has helped to create. IRESS' approach to innovation ...

CBA dismisses Murray's concerns over vertical integration

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
... and incentives are all designed to do the right thing by the consumer," he said. Narev argued that "in the spirit of [Future of Financial Advice] FoFA, the intent was to make sure that no matter how you're dealing with a customer, you are dealing in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... chairman Mark Barnaba, NAB chairman Michael Chaney and Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi will speak at a CEDA event on the future of Western Australia in Perth. In Australia, the market on Tuesday enjoyed its strongest session in more than five weeks as ...

Bowen supports lump sum status quo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... re-establishing a Council for Superannuation Guardians, with the current government scrapped. He called the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice Reforms (FoFA) "shambolic, secretive and dismissive of proper processes," and signaled a future Labor ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... size of US GNP. "It is going to be a very different world," he said. "It is going to have profound implications for the future of this economy because Australia cannot change its geography. You are where you are and you will be massively changed. The ...

FSC Conference: Follow the biopsychosocial model, life companies told

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
The future of the life insurance industry depends on the deeper understanding and implementation of the biopsychosocial model, life company executives have heard. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) annual conference, Robin Chase of the ...