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Suncorp chief executive warns of negative consumer impact of 'churn'....

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Financial planning

Treasury has proposed a standard definition of flood cover across the insurance industry....

Editorial

As the Government considers the way forward on the Future of Financial Advice reforms, Money Management publishes the following open letter written by a senior Melbourne ...

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Financial planning

An increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent is inexorably tied to the Mineral Resource Rent Tax, according to Bill Shorten....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has committed to change the rules around trusts while acknowledging a longer-term fix is necessary....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor reports that the former chief justice of the High Court, Sir Anthony Mason, has pointed to the legislative challenges facing the Government in delivering an e...

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Financial planning

Shorten urged to address excess contributions issue amid news that 65,000 were caught last financial year....

Editorial

The new lobbying group AusFIN may present a united front for consumer groups and the industry super funds, but Mike Taylor writes that a closer look at its members reveal...

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Editorial

With the Gillard Government believed certain to impose client 'opt in' arrangements on financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that some serious questions are being asked ...

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Life/Risk

In the wake of the Queensland floods, the Federal Government and Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) have agreed to develop a mandatory definition of ‘flood’...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has welcomed proposed changes to the controlled foreign company rules....

Editorial

The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has declared it will be opposing a compulsory lifting of the superannuation guarantee....

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Financial planning

The FPA welcomes continued primacy of ASIC in regulating planners on tax advice....

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Financial planning

The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....

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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 1 week ago

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

4 months 1 week ago

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

3 weeks 2 days ago

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

2 weeks 1 day 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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