FEDERAL BUDGET

Financial planning

The expected 2013 Budget cuts to the Public Service may encompass APRA and ASIC....

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Superannuation

Industry broadly welcomes Government’s decision to include contribution cap rise for over-60s in Budget....

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Editorial

With the Federal Budget, end of financial year and Federal Election looming, the financial planning industry is still facing a number of critical legislative loose ends. ...

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Financial planning

The financial services industry is bracing itself for Budget nasties as Treasury summons organisations for Friday talks....

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Editorial

At first blush the Federal Government’s proposal for the establishment of a Council of Superannuation Custodians capable of guiding and advising on underlying policy seem...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that it is passing strange that the Government has allowed a debate around the super taxes for upper income earners when it has failed to implement a v...

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Superannuation

Australia Institute head calls for Treasury to reveal costs of super versus pension savings....

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Superannuation

Hockey and Cormann claim there are no guarantees the Government won’t make further changes to super in the May Budget....

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Superannuation

AFA president Michael Nowak is calling for an amnesty on changes to super in next month’s Federal Budget in order to restore consumer confidence in the retirement system....

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Superannuation

Higher superannuation taxes for upper income earners may not be the only thing contained in the Federal Budget....

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Editorial

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...

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Superannuation

Coalition urges industry to help stop Government’s super tax changes before they occur because there are no guarantees post-Budget....

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Superannuation

The FPA, in its Treasury submission, has said the Government needs to immediately increase the super contributions cap and implement a longer-term financial plan....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that with the Government again having signalled the likelihood of change to Australia’s superannuation regime, its persistent fiddling continues to und...

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