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Financial planning groups have expressed serious concerns about ASIC's proposal to allow transition-to-retirement (TTR) strategies within intra-fund financial advice....

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Financial planning

A proposal to introduce a registration requirement for accountants who audit SMSFs could reduce not just the number of auditors performing a small number of audits each y...

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Financial planning

It is up to the financial planning industry to actively lift its standards regardless of what arises out of the FOFA legislation, according to Association of Financial Ad...

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants is calling for the Government to enable small businesses to clawback revenue losses against a previous year's income....

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Financial planning

Money Market and Debt eXchange plans to launch electronic trading system....

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Financial planning

New research by Edelman confirms Australians have little trust that the Government will do the right thing....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) question the validity of research commissioned by a party with a vested interest....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor reports that the likelihood of a bipartisan report and meaningful amendments emerging from the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills is becom...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) question the validity of research commissioned by a party with a vested interest....

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Financial planning

Macquarie Group points to weaker FY12 result amid difficult conditions....

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Financial planning

SPAA rejects Greens' superannuation policy as outdated and likely to penalise those saving for retirement....

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Financial planning

Risk-focused financial advisers remain optimistic about the outlook for themselves and their practices despite the changes facing the industry, according to a Zurich Fina...

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Financial planning

Macquarie Group points to weaker FY12 result amid difficult conditions....

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Financial planning

SPAA rejects Greens' superannuation policy as outdated and likely to penalise those saving for retirement....

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Financial planning

Chris Ryan exits Perpetual after agreeing to disagree with the board and is succeeded by Geoff Lloyd....

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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