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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation funds would rather see unclaimed remediation money directed away from charities and consumer groups and towards client’s superannuation accounts via the AT...

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Financial planning

The fractional investment platform has been integrated with self-managed super fund administrative platform Simple Fund 360....

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds with limited recourse borrowing arrangements will not be penalised for capitalising interest as a result of COVID-19....

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Policy & Regulation

Major financial services groups are urging the Government to provide incentives for people to top-up their superannuation but there are concerns that a lack of detailed r...

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Superannuation

Ten superannuation funds experienced outflows in excess of a billion dollars as a result of the Government’s COVID-19 hardship superannuation early release regime, with i...

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Editorial

If the Government seriously wants to make financial advice more affordable then it needs to conduct a thorough review to strip out the layers of regulation which have dri...

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Superannuation

The transfer balance cap indexation, the total super balance thresholds, and access to information for advisers need to be addressed to simplify the retirement income sys...

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office needs the ability to allow superannuation members to access their transfer balance account data outside its portal to curb confusion with t...

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Financial planning

With COVID-19 mostly under control in Australia, retirees are again looking to realise their plans to downsize their principal homes, according to BT....

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Funds management

The extension was voted on by unitholders after the trust reached the end of its initial seven-year term last year....

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Superannuation

2020 was the year of the Government’s hardship early release superannuation scheme and it was also a year during which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

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Superannuation

Some superannuation funds have been confirmed as having faced a liquidity squeeze as a result of the Government’s early release superannuation regime while some members l...

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Funds management

The measures will improve retirement outcomes by encouraging retirees to access the value of their home to fund their retirement....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has announced it will implement a range of reforms, including greater independence of the Tax Practitioners Board from the Australian Tax Office and a redu...

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Financial planning

Arlene Caolboy has been fined $40,000 for claiming she was a registered tax agent and unlawfully providing tax agent services....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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