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AMP FP to move to fee-for-service by June 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2009
... bank's half-year results presentation this morning its financial planning business will move to a "no commission" remuneration model by June next year. Dunn said Craig Meller, managing director at AMP Financial Services, is heading a strategy that will ...

Perpetual poised to gain market share

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... financial planner to make sure their clients are offered the best services, not [the products they get] the best remuneration from," said Deverall. That is, under the new reforms, planners will cast their net wider when it comes to choosing the products ...

Planner remuneration disclosure isn't working: ASIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... following ASIC's 184 page submission to the Ripoll Inquiry that asks the government to consider whether any form of remuneration from product manufacturers to advisers should be banned. "Commission remuneration can encourage advisers to sell products ...

AMP Capital Investors block poor corp governance

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... poor disclosure of terms and when the incentive is "too generous". Similarly, the fund voted against 30 per cent of remuneration reports and cited reasons including "poor disclosure", "unsatisfactory director retirement benefits" and concerns regarding ...

Downturn presents brand opportunity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... identify a superannuation brand. "They describe superannuation as faceless, they talk about fees, performance, executive remuneration and they overall couldn't relate to the people or the brands," said Mitchelmore. Yet at the same time, contrary to early ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... Management Consultants Association (IMCA), Lynn Ralph, managing director at Cameron Ralph, said focussing on executive remuneration is not effective in changing the culture of a listed company board. "There are a lot of column inches around remuneration ...

US planners prefer fee model: survey

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
US based financial planners are favouring a fee based remuneration model and appreciating the role of education more, according to a survey. A Cerulli Associates and College for Financial Planning survey, found a shift away from commission based remuneration ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... systemic problems but there is more to the "quality of advice" debate than the mere chopping and changing of the advice remuneration model.

PIS is not part of sale: NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... relationship with PIS." In a separate development, planners who use the Navigator platform will not be asked to change their remuneration policy despite the platform being bought by fee-for-service advocate NAB/ MLC, said Steve Tucker, NAB group executive ...

Industry bodies back IFSA charter

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... Planning Association said that the changes foreshadowed in this paper would align well with the FPA's Financial Planner Remuneration proposals. "We further support IFSA's calls for regulatory consistency in the supervision of superannuation funds to ...