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Despite contributing almost half a million dollars to its new television advertising campaign, the FPA has posted an after-tax budget surplus of $1.187 million for the ye...

Policy & Regulation

A Liberal party backbencher has stepped up the pressure on the Federal Government over super reform, making a speech to parliament calling for tax cuts to encourage peopl...

Financial planning

Term allocated pensions and retirees received a welcome boost yesterday after the Federal Government announced the results of its review of pensions provided by small sup...

Financial planning

MLC has added a non-commutable allocated pension to both its MasterKey platform and MasterKey Custom Superannuation in response to the Federal Government’s new transition...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has rejected an application by the Police Federation of Australia (PFA) to allow its members early access to their superannuation....

Financial planning

Federal Government moves to cut the compliance burden on the financial planning industry could backfire, creating more questions than answers for advisers....

Financial planning

The Federal Government has introduced legislation that will finally deliver on its 2004 election promise on superannuation splitting....

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Dunn and Colonial First State chief executive John Pearce have been promoted to the roles of chair and deputy chair of the ...

Financial planning

A group of the Federal Government’s own backbenchers is urging it to cut taxes on superannuation, with some calling for even more radical changes, such as allowing younge...

Financial planning

Women have emerged as the major beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s superannuation co-contribution regime, according to data released by the Commonwealth this week....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was prompted to create an example statement of advice (SOA) in response to the Federal Government paper Refine...

Financial planning

The financial services industry says the Federal Government went a long way yesterday to arresting fears that any proposed anti-money laundering legislation would heap un...

Superannuation

The commencement of the Federal Government’s Transitions to Retirement initiative has been extensively welcomed and widely discussed, but most platform managers are in no...

Financial planning

The FPA has told financial advisers not to be afraid of possible costs to their business that will be imposed when the Government releases its long awaited anti-money lau...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has come a step closer to formulating new legislation to combat money laundering in a third meeting on the topic with key industry representatives ...

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