The expected 2013 Budget cuts to the Public Service may encompass APRA and ASIC....
Industry broadly welcomes Government’s decision to include contribution cap rise for over-60s in Budget....
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. ...
The financial services industry is bracing itself for Budget nasties as Treasury summons organisations for Friday talks....
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...
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...
Australia Institute head calls for Treasury to reveal costs of super versus pension savings....
Hockey and Cormann claim there are no guarantees the Government won’t make further changes to super in the May Budget....
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....
Higher superannuation taxes for upper income earners may not be the only thing contained in the Federal Budget....
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...
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...
Coalition urges industry to help stop Government’s super tax changes before they occur because there are no guarantees post-Budget....
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....
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...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....