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Policy & Regulation

The National Institute of Accountants (NIA) has called on the Government to ease requirements on self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and phase out the contributions tax in i...

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Editorial

This year promises to be interesting year for the entire financial services industry, writes Jim Minto....

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Financial planning

More people are at risk of an ATO risk review or audit with the ATO's 'wealthy' barometer falling from $30 million net assets to $5 million....

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Financial planning

The Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) Inquiry into Financial Services and Products has recognised the need to lift the training and entry requirements for the financial...

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Editorial

The reaction to my move from a generalist technical role to one specialising in risk advice and adviser business growth was seen by some colleagues and advisers as a move...

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Financial planning

Financial planners need to make referrals a mainstream part of their businesses and develop frameworks to obtain referrals, according to consultant David Phelan....

Editorial

With so much focus on remuneration, Rick Di Cristoforo believes it may be time for financial advisory services to proactively educate their clients on the value they offe...

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Financial planning

Despite comprising less than two per cent of retail funds, structured products have received more than their fair share of criticism over the past year. Vince Scully disc...

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Financial planning

Transferring commercial property into a self-managed superannuation fund may lead to significant taxation benefits....

Accounting

The advent of industry-wide fee-for-service could see many more accountants expand into financial planning, with the potential for accountants to promote themselves as lo...

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Financial planning

Will create time and cost savings for advisers of self-managed super fund clients....

Financial planning

Completes last of 39 proceedings brought against Primelife since 2004....

Financial planning

Planners should work with referral partners to achieve the best business succession outcome, writes JON DE FRIES....

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Financial planning

Businesses such as iRefund thrive when consumers feel they are not getting value for the commissions paid to financial planners....

Financial planning

DANTE DE GORI considers ways to keep a client’s transition to retirement strategy on track in the face of injury or illness....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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