Suncorp chief executive warns of negative consumer impact of 'churn'....
Treasury has proposed a standard definition of flood cover across the insurance industry....
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 ...
An increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent is inexorably tied to the Mineral Resource Rent Tax, according to Bill Shorten....
The Federal Government has committed to change the rules around trusts while acknowledging a longer-term fix is necessary....
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...
Shorten urged to address excess contributions issue amid news that 65,000 were caught last financial year....
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...
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 ...
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’...
The financial services industry has welcomed proposed changes to the controlled foreign company rules....
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...
The Federal Opposition has declared it will be opposing a compulsory lifting of the superannuation guarantee....
The FPA welcomes continued primacy of ASIC in regulating planners on tax advice....
The financial planning industry appears to have extracted a workable truce on rules about the provision of tax advice....
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...