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ASFA concerned about board governance timeline

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... boards. Yet it does not support proposed requirement that a majority of both the Board Audit Committee (BAC) and Board Remuneration Committee (BRC) be independent directors. "In ASFA's view, while it is reasonable to require at least one independent ...

Pay rises better at non-aligned firms

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... better pay rises in the last financial year than those at institutionally aligned groups, according to the latest remuneration survey from industry consultancy The Dawson Partnership. While salaried financial planners employed by institutions received ...

Singapore looks to Australia on risk reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Services Council, Association of Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Association of Australia, the reforms target remuneration structures in insurance advice and the strengthening of financial advice as a distinct profession. Commissions paid on ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... industry responsible for tackling these serious structural conflicts, a transition towards phasing out commission-based remuneration is the only long term sustainable solution compatible with a professional financial advice industry."

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... insurance advisers and providers have reached an agreement to transition from high upfront commissions to alternative remuneration models. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Financial Services ...

US fiduciary rule fight not slowing down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... the DOL nevertheless echoed SIFMA's concerns that increased fees for investors to offset lost adviser commission remuneration could result in lower take-up of advice type services and lead to substantive changes to broker-dealer business models. Bentsen ...

Remuneration has no bearing on advice quality

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... head of Bombora Advice, which has just acquired two new financial advice practices, has defended commission based remuneration structures for risk advisers. Commenting on the recent inquiries into commission-based remuneration structures in the risk ...

Asteron discusses alternative commission structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... level commissions to be set at 20% of premiums and Vilo suggests the wholesale model would allow an adviser to build remuneration to that level. The model forms part of Asteron Life's submission to the federal government for the parliamentary joint committee ...

Expect no pay rises this year: report

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... accounting and banking industries will increase by no more than the rate of inflation in 2015, according to a wide ranging remuneration report by recruitment firm Robert Walters. In the 505 page report, which lists average 2014 and projected 2015 salaries ...

Fortnum drops upfront risk commissions

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... chair Ray Miles insisted these changes were not being made to combat policy "churning" in the group; rather, the new remuneration structure will ensure a "sustainable insurance industry". "Advisers are price takers not price makers. We don't set the ...