Mortgage brokers roll Recessionberg

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Desperation, thy name is Recessionberg, via AFR:

The federal government has backflipped on a key recommendation of the banking royal commission and will no longer ban trail commissions for mortgage brokers from 2020, as it promised to do last month.

Instead, it will hold a review into whether trail commissions should be kept from 2020 onwards. The review will be conducted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Council on Federal Financial Relations, which comprises the federal and state treasurers.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.