A significant question mark will hang over the Government’s Retirement Income Review if all it seeks to achieve is abandonment of the superannuation guarantee timetable a...

Despite the nay-sayers, Australia has developed a superannuation system which is the envy of many other developed economies but, in many respects, it remains a work in pr...

It appears that the Government moved to end grandfathering from the beginning of 2021 without knowing the precise dimensions of the issue and without taking into consider...

Australia’s financial services regulators have been handed greater regulatory powers but is there a danger that their interventions will result in distortions to otherwis...

The financial advice industry is facing yet another layer of bureaucracy as a result of the Government’s so-called Royal Commission Implementation Roadmap but the ultimat...

The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s decision to task the Standing Committee on Economics with reviewing the implementation of the Royal Commission recommendations has seriou...

There is already a good deal of confusion about the Government’s recent legislative efforts around insurance inside superannuation meaning that it should accede to indust...

Events over the past two months have revealed the number of commercial bets which have been placed predicated on the expected shape of the Australian financial planning i...

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has done much post-Royal Commission chest-beating about pursuing litigation but it needs to translate that tough talk...

Financial advisers have been badly served by the disagreements and divisions of past years and should encourage their representative organisations to speak with one voice...