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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has injected enough complexity and uncertainty into its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation that it may not be possible for the industry ...

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Superannuation

SPAA welcomes Shorten's superannuation guarantee changes, but wants action on contribution caps....

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Superannuation

<b>Updated:</b> Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann has questioned Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten's claim to be abolishing the superannuation guarantee age limit...

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Policy & Regulation

The proposed changes to transfer pricing rules will ensure multinational corporations operating in Australia pay the correct amount of tax on their income, according to A...

Superannuation

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has been accused of protecting industry superannuation funds and handing them an edge in the provision of financial advice....

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Policy & Regulation

A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition claims the Government's FOFA bill breaches its own best practice with respect to regulatory impact....

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Financial planning

The Government has released draft regulations relating to the way ASIC will recover costs from market participants in a new multi-operator environment....

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Accounting

Small Independent Super Funds Association wants definitive framework for accountants providing advice....

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Financial planning

The Government's inclusion of an annual disclosure on all financial advisers in its FOFA bills seriously breaches understanding around the legislation....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition will seek to have the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) bills sent to a Parliamentary inquiry....

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Editorial

Amid all the discussion around the recent release of the Government’s Stonger Super package, there existed the strong assumption that low-cost, low-fee MySuper products w...

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Financial planning

An equity release industry body has praised the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten's consultative approach before introducing changes to...

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Editorial

Putting aside the increasingly open question of whether the Gillard Labor Government will remain in power long enough to oversee the implementation of its Future of Finan...

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Superannuation

Multiple superannuation fund directorships and default funds under modern awards seen as key omissions from Stronger Super....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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 3 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 2 days 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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