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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has urged explicit rules around the disclosure of superannuation fund executive remuneration....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has urged explicit rules around the disclosure of superannuation fund executive remuneration....

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Financial planning

Concern for the global investment market has deepened over the past year, as European sovereign debt and slow growth in China continues to drive market volatility, accord...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council (FSC) warns FOFA tranche may restrict the ability of financial services companies to provide scalable financial advice....

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Superannuation

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has restated his party's opposition to an increase in the superannuation guarantee but said it would not rescind an increase if it was passe...

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Financial planning

The Government must remove a number of structural, regulatory and political issues that must be resolved before the $1.3 trillion in superannuation saving can be utilised...

Funds management

New FSC/Plan for Life research confirms Australia's standing as a regional funds management hub....

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Editorial

The Government has finally delivered the details of its Stronger Super package but, as Mike Taylor writes, those hoping for certainty may be waiting a very long time....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....

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Financial planning

Patron Financial Advice has opposed a Financial Services Council proposal to introduce a binding standard for insurance business, saying it would restrict consumer choice...

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Superannuation

The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....

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Financial planning

The term 'churning', which is being used to describe a legitimate practice, defames advisers while it whitewashes the role of life companies, according to Synchron direct...

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Financial planning

Government claims opt-in would cost around $11 per financial planning client is at best questionable and, at worst, entirely misleading, writes Mike Taylor....

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Editorial

Financial planners have finally been given the details of the Government's FOFA reforms. In an editorial written prior to the release of the reform package Mike Taylor wa...

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Financial planning

The integrity of consumer group Choice over its potentially conflicted partnership with One Big Switch has been questioned yet again, with Financial Services Council chie...

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