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Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association urged the Financial System Inquiry to review the definition of 'financial product advice' in the Corporations Act and said that the current regime was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry ...

New players need support to enter financial services: Coles

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... financial services industry, Coles has said The retailer expressed support for a proposal laid out in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI)'s interim report to improve access for new entrants to the financial services industry. In a submission to the inquiry ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has obtained the support from the Coalition to conduct a new Senate Economics Committee inquiry to scrutinise the financial services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... January 1, 2018, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in its submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is conducting an inquiry into proposals to lift the professional, ethical ...

GSA an affordable alternative to DLAs: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... risk, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). In its second submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), APRA was in agreement with interim reportA saying that the retirement income industry was underdeveloped, and that ...

Senate bill challenges general advice definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has decided to get ahead of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) and is set to table a bill to change the definition of 'general advice.' The Senator will introduce the private member bill today during the Senate sitting ...

Body needed to monitor adviser competency: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... standards, adviser education and the register of advisers, the FSC proposed in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The board should include representatives from industry participants such as the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration might have a negative effect on consumers, especially when financial product ...

FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... management industry, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said in its second round submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The new body, as envisaged by the FSC, would address international integration issues covering mutual recognition arrangements ...

Call general advice 'sales': CBA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... be changes to the way that 'advice' is described in its second round submission that responds to the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) Interim Report. In its 92 page submission published on the FSI website today, it recommended that general advice should ...