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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has striped Harts Staff Superannuation as the corporate trustee of the Harts Australia Staff Superannuation Fund, ap...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released the next addition to its policy proposal papers (PPP) on licensing and administrative issues of...

Financial planning

Life insurers implementing a licence under the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will have the assistance of a specialist conglomerate team....

Financial planning

Insurance and superannuation industry watchdog, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), can not adequately oversee government endorsed super funds, accordi...

Superannuation

Divorce will be the next big areas to impact on superannuation, according to Australian Super Nominees managing director Ben Smythe....

Financial planning

Solicitors’ mortgage schemes once again feel the heat in response to rising losses from several schemes in Tasmania which have been estimated to have lost up to $20 milli...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumers’ Association and the Australian Shareholders’ Association are calling for an inquiry into what they call the failure of the Australian Prudential...

Superannuation

<B>The new adviser </B>For a number of years, self managed super funds (SMSF) have been considered part-time work for many financial planning professionals across Austral...

Financial planning

Convergence and the digital revolution in global capital markets are becoming the drivers of regulatory regimes throughout the world, according to Professor Ian Harper of...

Financial planning

The Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) is appealing to financial planners to join its ranks in a bid to better represent self-managed superannuati...

Financial planning

Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...

Financial planning

Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...

Financial planning

<I>To amend or not to amend That is the question Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the ATO Or by amendment to quell them To amend, per cha...

Superannuation

A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...

Financial planning

A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...

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