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RC questions adviser sales tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
... have been three or four decades ago, but it has changed most recently, thanks to FoFA, he said. Banning conflicted remuneration as of July 2013 was the start of it, together with increased fee disclosure transparency and the ability to opt-in regularly ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 1 - 3)

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... advice between 1 January 2009 and 1 January 2018. Westpac's submission said it paid out $200m annually in conflicted remuneration. CBA admitted to at least $118.5 million of fee for no service misconduct in its three RC submissions. Testifying for AMP ...

Westpac paid out $200m annually in conflicted remuneration

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... permitted payments are passed onto financial advisers. However, on top of the annual $200 million in permitted conflicted remuneration, Wright explained Westpac has provided or Westpac advisers have received about $222,000 in banned conflicted remuneration ...

ASIC widens conflicted adviser remuneration rules

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
ASIC has added additional conditions to its definitions of conflicted remuneration in financial advice both in light of recent reforms and to address specific concerns. Issued ahead of the life insurance framework deadline on January 1, Regulatory Guide ...

Life insurance reforms to be re-introduced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... adviser remuneration, and is designed to improve the quality of advice consumers receive by regulating conflicted remuneration."

Mark Dunsford attacks FSC over life reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... adviser remuneration, and is designed to improve the quality of advice consumers receive by regulating conflicted remuneration. While high up front commissions have been significantly reduced in the Bill, the arrangements allow the continuation of upfront ...

US Senate votes down adviser fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... Bill last month. The reform to compel retirement advisers to act in the clients' best interests and limit conflicted remuneration payments has been championed by the Obama White House since the GFC but has proved controversial stirring up heated resistance ...

FoFA end marks start of new advice era

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... is why the Government has included in the bill the possibility of winding back "existing exemptions to conflicted remuneration to address any future unintended consequences in relation to the conflicted remuneration provisions." Regulatory certainty ...

Parliament repeals key FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... provision, changes to allow the payment of mixed benefits; and the general advice exemption relating to conflicted remuneration. "The agreed refinements are aimed at improving the operation of FOFA and alleviating a number of unintended consequences ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... arrangements that do not influence the advice provided to retail clients are not caught by the ban on conflicted remuneration, when it was never intended that they would be," Frydenberg said. "As I have said before, once these announced refinements are ...