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Sherry wins Labor votes with simple super plan

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
... contributions to a central clearing house. However, Sherry did not choose to weigh in decisively on the fees versus commission debate canvassed over the conference, saying Labor would work further on policy, to "improve the advice model" putting greater ...

ASIC defends AMP FP action

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... poorly documented or lacked a reasonable basis of advice. But Lucy added that the regulator would not weigh in on the raging debate over commissions currently engulfing the wealth management industry, leaving it to the industry, government or a combination ...

Compliance alone doesn't make the grade

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2006
Competent is a long way from professional, professional is not something that should be prescribed by the regulators and, as an industry, we've had our focus all wrong, according to Financial Services Educators Agency Australia (FSEAA) general manager ...

ME-IFS merger just the end of the beginning: Weaven

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... classes] within the next 12 months," he said. But relishing the impact industry have had on the market, Weaven said the debate financial advisers are having amongst themselves right now convinces him that industry funds have already won the war. "It's ...

Online banking rules: Commonwealth

... the country, has found that 85 per cent of Australians voted the internet as their preferred banking channel. Amid much debate in recent years about the closure and re-opening of bank branches, the Commonwealth Bank's first survey on internet banking ...

MLC claims "first mover" on "fee for service"

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... purely by fee for service, believing it is a "first move" for a major player in the industry that has become caught up in a debate largely based on loose definitions. Godfrey Pembroke managing director, Mark Rantall, said the move was an obvious one ...

Govt will not ban commissions: Pearce

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... themselves. Speaking at an Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) function yesterday, Pearce left no doubt that the debate over commissions should be drawn to a close as soon as possible. "It is not for the Government to dictate to the ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... down the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers. The cause of the discomfort over the sale are its speed and the lack of public debate, both of which are still sending shockwaves through the NSW and Victorian rural community. NSW Liberal Senator Bill Hefernnan ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... charges, which are also a mandated impost, and are included in the OECD figures (and definitions) as a tax." But again, the debate came down to one of how on earth would they measure it anyway, and if they could how would they adjust statistics from ...

Industry groups ecstatic over red tape rationalisation proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
... improvements in the operation of the FSR regime," said chairman Corinna Dieters. "FPA welcomes the opportunity for a comprehensive debate on the factors contributing to the large amount of unwritten advice revealed in the ASIC Shadow Shopping Survey&ASIC's ...