Bill Shorten has delivered on reforms to financial planning that will yield big benefits for Australia decades hence.
Financial services
Our fiscal props: financial services and mining
Quick - what’s the biggest sector of the Australian economy? The answer reveals a lot about what’s happened since 2001, and what will happen in the next recession.
Convincing politicians to opt out of financial services reform
A low-profile campaign is underway to convince politicians to reverse a key financial services reform that will save Australians billions.
Will Bowen’s reforms end Australians’ deep disengagement with their super?
Somewhat unexpectedly, Chris Bowen has produced a comprehensive and innovative series of reforms for the financial services industry. But there’ll be no legislation before next year and possibly not until July 1, 2011.
Ripoll’s halfway house on shonks and spivs
Bernie Ripoll has produced a bipartisan report from the Financial Services inquiry into the Storm and Opes collapses, and it shows, writes Bernard Keane.
Conflict of interest in the financial services sector: it’s time to act
While Australia conducts a review of superannuation and toys with self-regulation of financial advisers’ conflicts of interest, the United States and the United Kingdom are rapidly moving toward an outright ban on commissions.
