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Soft dollar ban impact potential

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... joint venture with the Financial Services Council (FSC) - setting an industry benchmark on how alternative forms of remuneration paid by third parties are managed and disclosed."

ACSI: executive salaries soar above share value

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Australian Council of Super Investor's (ACSI) ten-year anniversary, looked at the influence chief executive salaries and remuneration structure incentives have on the retirement savings of superannuation fund members. According to the report, companies ...

FOFA: Opt-in obligations, ASIC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... Shorten will release the second tranche of legislation later in the year which will focus on the ban on conflicted remuneration (covering commissions and volume payments), the ban on 'soft dollar' benefits, the ban on asset-based fees (where there is ...

FOFA: Government extends soft-dollar benefit ban to non-super risk insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... may influence its decisions. Previously the ban only affected the same products as the broader ban on conflicted remuneration, so it did not apply to risk insurance outside of superannuation. But the Government has widened it net and the ban now covers ...

FOFA divides on commission

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... enable customers to see the impact of commissions on their premiums," read the draft. However, the ban on conflicted remuneration, including the ban on commissions, will not apply to existing contractual rights of an adviser to receive ongoing product ...

Delaney retires amid MTAA board restructure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... fund, including full audited accounts for each financial year being made available on its website. Information on the remuneration of directors and executives will also be made available.

CBA's Norris to retire, Narev replaces

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... years and have learnt a lot from him." Narev will take over from Norris on December 1. CBA said Narev's total fixed remuneration would be $2.5 million a year. Norris' retirement from the role was his and the board's decision, with Turner thanking Norris ...

JB Global submits to independent review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... inappropriate advice, failure to investigate clients' situations and instances of inadequate disclosure of adviser remuneration, it said. ASIC said the firm indicated its intention to change to a general advice model, implemented training programs and ...

Financial Planners want level playing field on commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
Stockbrokers should be subject to the same rules on conflicted remuneration and commissions as the rest of the financial services industry and not seek special dispensation, financial planners have said. Stockbrokers have reportedly asked to be exempted ...

Customers rate SMSFs the best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... sector. "The fact that the retail funds continue to trail Industry Funds at a time when there is much discussion on the remuneration method for planners, should lead to a re-focusing on consumers and who they perceive as being better performers," he ...