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A segment of the financial planning industry continues to see itself as the real victim of banking scandals and is desperate to stop any reform.
The closure of Dover Financial illustrates that only tough regulatory decisions lie ahead for financial planning.
The links between the Liberal Party, the big banks and the financial planning sector seem to go beyond the ordinary relationships between business and politicians.
There are three key steps required if financial planning is to become professional. Otherwise, it should abandon the pretence it is comparable to medical and legal practitioners.
The poor quality and lack of professionalism of financial planners is a huge problem for all Australians.
What's left of the vertically integrated wealth management model, under which big banks and AMP ripped off consumers for years, was destroyed at the banking royal commission yesterday. And there's more to come.
While the financial industry's reputation goes up in smoke, the government is busy pursuing an ideological agenda against industry super funds, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
Even through phrased in polite central banker language, yesterday Glenn Stevens made clear to the big banks that the RBA doesn't trust them as much as it used to, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
While Labor's Sam Dastyari runs "show trials" of the big banks, the Coalition is left ruing its failure to take control of the issue of financial planning scandals.
