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The number of Australians being underpaid their superannuation jumped to three million in 2015-16, compared to 2.76 million in 2014-15, Industry Super has said....
People & Products
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority deputy chair, Helen Rowell, has received another five-year term in her role and will be joined by Treasury deputy secretary, Jo...
Policy & Regulation
The Turnbull Government has released draft legislation on the tax treatment of stapled structures aimed at ensuring foreign investors pay their fair share of tax....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has sent a clear signal that the Government won’t be tinkering with the superannuation guarantee in next week’s Budget....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has released draft legislation allowing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to recoup its costs from industry at the rate of $175....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has claimed the Federal Opposition has back-flipped on its 1998 position on dividend imputation....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Institute of Company Directors has criticised the Bank Executive Accountability Regime as representing an erosion of the rights of corporate boards....
Financial planning
ASIC has released its Cost Recovery Implementation Statement outlining its estimated regulatory costs in 2017/18 as part of the industry funding model. ...
Superannuation
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has indicated it would crack down on how industry funds were using members’ money, for things like sponso...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....
Editorial
The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...
Policy & Regulation
A Senate Committee has been told that imposing an email address requirement on the share registers of publicly-listed companies runs the risk of finding them all in breac...
Editorial
The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that the Government’s proposals to make it easier for people to opt-out of insurance within superannuation comes with risks which cannot be ignored....
Superannuation
The Government has moved to place superannuation fund directors and executives on the same footing as those of publicly-listed companies with exposure to civil and crimi...
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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....