IMAP coordianted a submittion from teh managed accounts industry as a response to the Royal Commission Interim Report to illustrate that managed accounts can have positive putcomes for the end investor. This submission makes reference to 5 of the particular issues raised in the Interim Report

The adoption of managed accounts over the past three or four years – there is now approximately $60 billion invested in various forms of SMA and MDA – has been driven by a number of separate factors.

Following the Royal Commission's recommendation, the Australian Treasury released a consultation paper just before Xmas 2019 on the proposed Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR).

This is a fund which will compensate clients of most financial services who win a compensation payment through AFCA or some other process. 

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By mapping your clients’ journey to the advice process, you can ensure your clients are getting optimum engagement at all their interactions and touchpoints with your business. Here are some tips from Netwealth for mapping your clients’ journey.

The number of clients seeking advise from planners continues to decline, as the move by more planners to self-licence increases.

These were two of the key findings to emerge from the 2018 Planner Business Model Report, which is an annual study of Australia financial planners and their business models by research company, Investment Trends.

Perspectives provides a round-up of the key recommendations in the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. This analysis concentrates specifically on the impact the recommendations will have on the financial advice sector in relation to managed accounts.

On Friday 28 September, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne handed down the interim report from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services industry. And while the report didn’t provide any recommendations, it did raise a number of key questions for the industry.

“I think that businesses in the future will have an element of specialisation. They still might offer a raft of different services, but advice businesses will increasingly become deep and narrow with their skill set. The days of having generalists providing a bit of everything will become increasingly limited.”