FEDERAL ELECTION 2016

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the major parties need to understand that notwithstanding the delicate make-up of the Senate, it is time to end the uncertainty around superannuat...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government will allow its expert standards setting body discretion to issue exemptions on a case-by-case basis....

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Financial planning

Kelly O’Dwyer has retained her financial services portfolio but has relinquished Small Business and has become the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services....

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Editorial

Financial planners should brace themselves for a further period of political and policy uncertainty and possibly rue the lost opportunities of 2013-16. ...

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Financial planning

There are suggestions that the make-up of the new Federal Parliament makes a Royal Commission into banking and financial services inevitable. What do you think?...

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Financial planning

School-like exams might not be appropriate for all advisers under the new education standards, and the word 'exam' should be removed from the Exposure Draft, the AFA said...

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Superannuation

The outcome of the Federal election will not change the fact that the new super regime is for building only a moderate retirement nest-egg, according to Austock....

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