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FEDERAL BUDGET 2017
Superannuation
Superannuation is expected to have an outflow of funds as a result of the Budget super changes with retail master funds and wrap platforms the major beneficiaries, accor...
Superannuation
Bank-owned retail super funds were disguising sales techniques as choice when it came to super to bamboozle customers but choice did not equate to robust performance, ISA...
Superannuation
Housing affordability has serious implications for metro-based retirees, according to Milliman’s report....
Superannuation
How super funds honour deemed earnings is one of the key questions surrounding the first home super saver scheme, according to HLB Mann Judd Sydney....
Superannuation
Linking housing with superannuation is a powerful mechanism to encourage millennials to engage with their super and planners should now engage with millennial clients....
Editorial
The Government’s 2017 Budget changes to financial services may have been modest but Mike Taylor writes that they will come at considerable cost....
Superannuation
It would be disastrous if the First Home Super Savers Scheme led to allowing other withdrawals from super, according to the Federal Opposition....
Policy & Regulation
The major banks are facing a bipartisan pincer on the proposed bank levy with Federal Opposition leader, Bill Shorten backing such a move while continuing his calls for a...
Life/Risk
The Budget has proposed to only allow new plant and equipment assets and items added to an investment property to be depreciated....
Financial planning
The Australian Bankers Association has accused the Government of policy on the run and of abrogating normal legislative processes....
Policy & Regulation
The major banks still don’t know precisely how the Government’s new bank levy will work but most are claiming it will be shareholders and customers who ultimately pay....
Life/Risk
The Government has left the door open to consider a more comprehensive approach in allowing seniors to use the equity in their homes, Homesafe Solutions believes....
Policy & Regulation
Significant policy changes laid out in the 2017 Federal Budget which affect Australia’s fintech sector have been met with approval by the industry body. ...
Policy & Regulation
Bank executives are unhappy and the Financial Services Council wants substantial consultation around the new Banking Executive Accountability Regime....
Financial planning
The Budget measure allowing people aged over 65 to downsize their home and contribute an extra $300,000 to super has provided scope for new planning strategies....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
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,...