FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Superannuation

The financial planning industry organisation has welcomed a signal from the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, that the Federal Govern...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has been taken to task for causing consumer uncertainty by taking an undue amount of time to deliver a new legislative framework covering the finan...

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Financial planning

Mandatory flood cover will not solve the problem of repeated flooding to at-risk areas, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has warned....

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Financial planning

As the financial services sector braces for major change flagged by the Federal Government more than a year ago, companies within the industry are becoming increasingly v...

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Financial planning

There seems to be a sizeable gap between boutique dealer groups and major institutions in terms of financial planner recruitment this year, as the two sectors face differ...

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Policy & Regulation

Federal Government moves to ban risk commissions have been labelled 'poor policy' amid entrenched financial planner opposition to the FOFA reforms. This and more in the l...

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Policy & Regulation

The Institute of Public Accountants has called for clarity on how carbon tax will impact small and medium businesses....

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Financial planning

The Government has released a legislative draft covering charities giving ATO greater powers....

Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has produced a discussion paper detailing its savings incentives....

Financial planning

The Treasury has declined to say whether banning commissions on life/risk products in super will end up making such products more expensive....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has called on the Federal Government to extend legal privilege to tax advice provided by professional tax advisers....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has handed Medicare responsibility for administering compassionate early release superannuation....

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Editorial

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

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Financial planning

The Government has been urged to improve default fund arrangements, as more negative reports emerge about MTAA Super....

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