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Marketing key to $480bn post-retirement opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... lever, perhaps easing the pressure to lower fees," Inwood said. CoreData has uncovered a growing latent demand for scaled advice among pre and post-retirees in APRA-regulated funds. The majority of those surveyed (60.2%) said they would be likely to ...

QSuper appoints Decimal as advice platform provider

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
QSuper has appointed Decimal Software Limited as the software platform provider for its scaled advice operations. Decimal's platform will provide QSuper members with the option for limited financial advice with real time process and compliance management. ...

Coalition secures PUP support on FoFA vote

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... streamlining of fee disclosure statements, amending the best interest duty and providing certainty around the provision of scaled advice. Some of these changes took effect on 1 July 2014, while others will have to wait until the government has passed ...

ASIC reviews FoFA progress

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... to financial services product providers. However, ASIC said a number of AFS licensees had reported an increase in scaled advice and strategic advice, and most had reviewed their approved product lists. Most licensees reported a change in income as a ...

Planners in urgent need of better tech: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... reviews as an area where improvements could be made, 62% answered generation of FoAs, 57% compliance, 45% providing scaled advice and 40% completing workflows during client meetings. In total, "91% of planners say technology can really help out in client ...

Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... requirement, the removal of the catch-all provision of the best interest duty, the provisions regarding investor access to scaled advice and the removal of the requirement for fee disclosure statements (FDS) to be sent to pre-July 1, 2013, clients. Changes ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... it is persuaded that this "would not dilute the best interest duty." Consumer protection and affordability within scaled advice was one of the Committee's main points of interest. "Advisers, when providing scaled advice, should be under an explicit obligation ...

XPLAN named top planning application

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... planning/platform integrated planning application was AdviserNETgain/Asgard. Provisio was surveyed as the best superannuation scaled advice application, followed by XPLAN Engage and Decimal. "Provisio has been part of the development of superannuation ...

Intra-fund advice is low-cost

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... $2.81 per member per year, with an average per member per year cost of $9.65. ASFA said the bulk of the cost of scaled advice (87%) is covered by general administration fees charged to members by funds, or a combination of general administration fees ...

FPA "extremely wary" of general advice commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... submission also exposed the FPA's position on other proposed changes. It asked for greater tightening for the delivery of scaled advice "to avoid unintended consequences" and it endorsed the removal of sub-section s961B(2)(g) about the best interests ...