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Financial planning

The Government’s changes to the ECT regime add to the compliance burden, despite the ATO doing the heavy lifting. ...

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Editorial

Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...

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Policy & Regulation

Australia's taxation of foreign managed funds will soon be aligned with countries including the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore, as the Federal Government rolls out i...

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Policy & Regulation

Asteron has announced a range of product enhancements as part of a stated plan to help its advisers navigate through upcoming Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms. ...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has released for comment its draft legislation tightening up reverse mortgages....

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Financial planning

Both the Financial Services Council and the Federal Opposition have sent the Government a clear message that they will not accept any delay in referring the status of def...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has moved to reduce churn in the life insurance industry via a uniform approach to commissions....

Superannuation

The financial planning industry organisation has welcomed a signal from the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, that the Federal Govern...

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Policy & Regulation

The first draft of the legislation flowing from the Government’s proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes is now not likely to be made available until nex...

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Superannuation

The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has signalled the Government may be prepared to compromise on its banning of individually advised advice within superannuation....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial planners are set to maintain their lobbying against the Government's FOFA proposals....

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Financial planning

The Government has released a legislative draft covering charities giving ATO greater powers....

Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has produced a discussion paper detailing its savings incentives....

Editorial

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, stirred up a great deal of anger and resentment recently by saying that he did not believe the key ...

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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 ...

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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....

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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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