FEDERAL OPPOSITION

Editorial

With the Federal Election campaign now approaching the halfway mark, Mike Taylor notes that there has been precious little discussion about financial services, the Future...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is committed to financial services industry reform, regardless of whether the current Government is in place after the Federal Election...

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition claims to have been inundated with expressions of concern from small business financial planners over the Government's Future of Financial Advice c...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has increased its commitment to the removal of commissions in financial planning, linking the move to the development of Australia as a regional fi...

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Financial planning

The Government has accused the Opposition of damaging Australia's efforts to become a financial services hub by resisting withholding tax changes....

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition's decision to contest the lift of the superannuation guarantee has sparked condemnation from Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) c...

Financial planning

The Federal Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen, has criticised the Federal Opposition’s stand on an increase in the super guar...

Financial planning

Govt draws line in the sand in face of Opposition threats to block the resource rent tax and associated super changes....

Financial planning

The political cycle is such that any changes to Australia's financial planning regime will have to be introduced after the next Federal Election....

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Financial planning

A Federal Opposition senator has called on the Federal Government to move for the unfreezing of mortgage funds....

Financial planning

The Parliamentary Joint Committee that has investigated aspects of the financial services industry over the past nine months has made 11 wide-ranging reform recommendatio...

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Financial planning

The recommendations of the Ripoll Inquiry into financial services have gained bi-partisan support, with the Federal Opposition backing the final report of the Parliamenta...

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Financial planning

League tables are flawed and inappropriate and the regulator should not have the power to produce them....

Financial planning

Amid member statements revealing a second consecutive year of double digit losses, the Federal Government has sought to reassure Australians about the value of superannua...

Financial planning

The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry, has been accused of skewing the panel overseeing the review of superannuation by under-representin...

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