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Financial planning

The Senate has asked the Productivity Commission to create a new process for the selection and review of default superannuation funds....

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Superannuation

Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten has effectively moved the debate about the SG increase away from the implementation of a super profits resource rent tax and into...

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Editorial

The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has outlined some of the Government's policy agenda, including a commitment to MySuper but, as ...

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Financial planning

A survey commissioned and paid for by the Australian Taxation Office has revealed the degree to which the Government blundered by tinkering with the superannuation rules ...

Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten declares the consultative process around super reforms won’t be allowed to alter the ultimate policy outcome....

Superannuation

Shorten has issued an assurance that the shape of MySuper is not a fait accompli....

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Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has committed to both MySuper and SuperStream within three years....

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Funds management

Australia set to push for introduction of Asia Region Funds Management Passport at APEC forum....

Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten returns superannuation guarantee to wages pressure equation....

Editorial

The financial services portfolio is emerging as a launch pad for political careers and Bill Shorten finds himself confronted by a worthy opponent in Mathias Cormann....

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Editorial

What should the Australian financial planning industry make of the appointment of Bill Shorten as the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superann...

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Financial planning

Former union official and Labor Party heavyweight, Bill Shorten named as new Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services....

Financial planning

Retirees have been given a 50 per cent reduction in the minimum drawdown amounts for account-based, allocated and market-linked pensions for the 2010-11 financial year, w...

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Policy & Regulation

The Minister for Financial Services, Chris Bowen, has confirmed the Government’s commitment to clearing obstacles to Islamic finance in Australia....

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Financial planning

The Treasury has released the exposure draft regulations for extending tax file number (TFN) withholding arrangements to closely held trusts, which include family trusts....

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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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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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