FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Life/Risk

Australians should receive a minimum of one dollar per week of death insurance cover and the Government must do more to educate the public about the potential pitfalls as...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned the Federal Government that legislation exempting employers from reporting quarterly to employees on their...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has formed a new advisory committee to assist the Australian Taxation Office in devising an education campaign ahead of the implementation of the c...

Financial planning

Women could be the big winners from the superannuation co-contribution scheme for low income workers, with more than 126,000 expected to have their retirement savings top...

Financial planning

The Federal Government is claiming a victory with respect to the implementation of its superannuation co-contribution scheme, quoting Australian Taxation Office figures i...

Financial planning

The financial services industry is one step nearer to having closure on the looming and potentially crippling cost of having to identify more than nine million investors ...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has picked up where it left off prior to the Federal Election and is back on the lobby trail appealing for the re-ins...

Financial planning

The Federal Election may be over but the Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough has indicated he has no intention of relaxing his approach to the Federal Opposition’s superannuat...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...

Superannuation

The Federal Government has moved quickly after its October 9 election win to clear the way for the implementation of its retirement incomes policy and has launched a disc...

Superannuation

Financial planners are being invited to help bridge the retirement savings gap faced by many ageing Australians and educate them as to the reality, in terms of reasonable...

Superannuation

The future of Australia’s mushrooming $130 billion self-managed super funds industry is bracing itself ahead of the weekend’s Federal Election, according to the SMSF Prof...

Financial planning

The Coalition has made a $21 million pledge towards improving financial literacy standards as both parties scramble for voter sentiment on the eve of the Federal Election...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has sought to use statements on the use of superannuation funds made by the Federal Opposition leader, Mark Latham up to six years' ago to suggest ...

Financial planning

Yesterday’s deal between the Federal Government and the Democrats, that will see the Government’s stalled choice of super plans passed in the senate, will not aid the con...

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