Wednesday’s AFR View expresses caution over long-awaited reforms that will increase super funds’ ability to provide financial advice to their members. It invokes the spectre of the Hayne royal commission’s findings on vertical integration, warning that “it’s difficult to imagine a super fund’s financial advice encouraging people to invest in a different fund or financial product”.If that is the whole argument against progressing the second tranche of Delivering Better Financial Outcomes reforms, The Australian Financial Review’s editors should sleep well tonight because for the overwhelming majority of Australians whom the reform will serve, the advice they are looking for is simply not about choosing products.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles