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Appropriately enough, it took a regulatory breakdown to finally ruffle the policy chief’s feathers. In the first of a series of whitepapers aimed at collating the issues, Phil Anderson lays bare the failures of government, ASIC and E&P Financial Group.

There are several aspects to the treatment of the case that don’t add up, the association’s policy lead says, and a transparent public inquiry is more than warranted.

Even when thousands more advisers left the industry in 2022, bringing the cohort down from 28,000 in 2018 to a total of around 17,000, there was still no shortage according to the government’s own skills commission.