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Financial planning

The Federal Government is today expected to veto yesterday’s Senate amendments to its superannuation legislation which in effect clear the way for the transmission of tax...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has postponed changes to the rules for allocated and complying pensions, presenting a small window of opportunity for clients, says Graeme Colley....

Funds management

Superannuation fund members have been warned against engaging the services of individuals or companies promoting early access to retirement benefits and threatened with s...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have hit out at the possible increased regulatory powers of the Aust...

Financial planning

Australia’s industry based superannuation funds have strongly rejected what they regard as the Federal Government’s “pre-emption of due process” by regulating for superan...

Financial planning

The Federal Government’s superannuation portability regulations have been shot down in the Senate this morning after being disallowed due to Assistant Treasurer, Senator ...

Editorial

Craig Phillips looks back at some of the big funds management groups no longer in operation....

Life/Risk

The former chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Alan Cameron has been appointed to head up a Federal Government review of the Insurance Contr...

Financial planning

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) will move in the Senate today to disallow the Federal Government’s superannuation portability regulations in the wake of the unanimous re...

Financial planning

Clients may be facing “poorer” and “fragmented” advice on superannuation fund structures under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) if accountants are unable to give ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reacted to industry criticism of the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Editorial

Listed investments are not a new development and have been available to advisers for many years. As such a whole industry has been established around them....

Life/Risk

As Rhonda Virtue writes, it is essential that members are educated about the impact of choice on insurance....

Financial planning

The accounting profession has made a last-ditch effort for the right to provide at least a small measure of advice under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....

Financial planning

Count Financial has weighed in on heated industry debate over whether accountants should be able to provide advice on superannuation fund structures without an Australian...

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