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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have formed a joint taskforce to help guide the future of life/risk commissions....

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Policy & Regulation

More than $1.8 billion per year in repair and maintenance work on negatively geared homes could be lost if Labor goes ahead with its policy to impose restrictions on the ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Government of unliterally and retrospectively seeking to alter the contract which exists between licensees and the A...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has found itself in difficulty over its legacy superannuation tax policy and the continuing debate over refundable franking credits....

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Policy & Regulation

With the Government last night announcing the Federal Budget is in a $7.1 billion surplus, Martin Currie’s chief investment officer, Reece Birtles, expects consumer spend...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has delivered what it is describing as the largest personal income tax since the Howard Government....

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Superannuation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has unveiled key tweaks to superannuation policy – allowing those aged 65 and 66 to make voluntary contributions without the work t...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has issued a discussion paper canvassing lifting the minimum default levels of insurance inside superannuation as well as including total and perma...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has called on the Government to finally act on tax relief allowing consumers to be rolled out of legacy financial products....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has announced a review of the Tax Practitioners Board....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has been told that recent changes to superannuation have effectively eroded the incentives for people to use superannuation as a savings vehicle....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has been warned that glitches in its Protecting Your Super legislation could result in fund members being treated unequally....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia (ISA) has launched a public awareness campaign to try and prompt legislative change to help resolve the problem of unpaid superannuation....

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Financial planning

Building on comments from Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne on the importance of financial counselling financing, the Government has announced a review of the funding of t...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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