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Life insurance advisers should retain commissions at their current level, the advice review leader proposed, but only on the condition that clients sign explicit consent agreements acknowledging conflicted remuneration.
The financial services minister is looking at tackling scammers at the source: “Does our barista down the corner really need my email address, my bank details, my name and my mobile phone number just to buy a cup of coffee?”
Implementing the current proposal for ‘experienced’ advisers to skip the relevant degree mandate will do far more harm than good, the association argues, with both current and future advisers turned off by the plan.
The corporate regulator has released its enforcement and regulatory update for June 2022, during which it launched a series of litigations targeting misconduct.
With a long list of economic headwinds having hammered global growth and dampened investor confidence, the upcoming (second-quarter) US reporting season is going to be an interesting one.
News that the rollout of the Your Future Your Super (YFYS) test beyond My Super products would be paused has been met with positive and negative commentary from the investment industry.
Under the updated RG276, ASIC has made it clear that any retirement calculator must be agnostic to product.
The closing of submissions for the Quality of Advice review saw a flurry of detailed proposals released in recent weeks.
Following the 2009 Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry into Financial Products and Services in Australia, the FoFA reforms were developed.
The Australian Taxation Office has warned people not to make the mistake of double-dipping their deductions in their tax return this year after identifying this as a common problem, especially in relation to work-related expenses.
Whilst there are growing signs that inflation is moderating around the world, whether in the US, UK or Australia, some 125 of the world’s central banks are current in the process of tightening monetary policy.
“We have seen a monumental shift in the way consumers act in recent years” explained Emilie O’Neill of Perennial Better Future