A Queensland academic has raised serious doubts about the legal underpinnings of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority code of ethics and, by implication, the veracity of the adviser exam. For more.
Performance comparisons, branded reports, ensuring compliance, improving business efficiencies and using latest technology are achievable with automated report production. For more.
The Government is committed to removing restrictions regarding superannuation fund choice but will not prevent a default fund being specified in an award. For more.
The strident voices of a number of Government backbenchers should prompt some serious questioning around the real objective of the Government’s Retirement Income Review. For more.
Mike Taylor writes that the transition of Count Financial advice practices to a user-pays model has starkly revealed the degree to which the end to grandfathering has also ended so-called adviser subsidies. For more.
