Value advice, says GESB

23 February 2010 | GESB is arguing that the need for people to receive advice supplants the debate over fees and commissions.

Commissions only part of cost equation

25 June 2009 | New research from the Heron Partnership reveals that cutting commissions will only go a part of the way towards reducing underlying superannuation costs.

Efficiency as effective as higher preservation age

28 May 2009 | Industry Super Network leverages preservation age debate to remount attack on planner commissions.

Will Govt quarantine SG from planner commissions?

28 April 2009 | Newspaper reports are suggesting the Government will use the Budget to announce arrangements which would see the superannuation guarantee quarantined from planner commissions.

Fix super inefficiencies

5 March 2009 | AIST and industry funds argue for removal of super inefficiencies before lifting the superannuation guarantee.

AMP drops industry funds

10 May 2007 | The industry superannuation funds movement has expressed disappointment at the decision by AMP Financial Planning to remove industry funds from its approved products list.

Industry funds attack commissions-based advice

9 May 2007 | The Industry Superannuation Funds Network has raised both the AMP enforceable undertaking and the issue of shelf fees as clear arguments against the provision of commissions-based financial advice in the superannuation industry.

Labor acknowledges commissions ‘problem’

16 May 2006 | Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has acknowledged that commissioned-based financial advice represents a problem for the superannuation industry.