GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION

Life/Risk

Letter from Shorten and consultation with ASIC prompts FSC to reopen moves for self-regulation around churn. ...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government is updating its super calculator to reflect increases to the SG. ...

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Superannuation

APRA defers key element of SuperStream data collection to second half of next year....

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Policy & Regulation

Planners receiving remuneration based on clients’ gearing instalments may have to adjust pre-FOFA....

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Financial planning

Praemium has announced that its separately managed account (SMA) platform has been signed up to the Government’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV) scheme....

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Policy & Regulation

Govt appears unmoved by industry efforts to extract a further extension of the TASA arrangements....

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Superannuation

ASFA reflects views of industry by maintaining its opposition to an industry levy to pay for AUSTRAC....

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Financial planning

Charitable investment funds act like banks so they should be regulated as such, according to ASIC....

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Superannuation

The Opposition dismisses as “hysterical” the reaction to its decision to extend the phase-in over the SG rise....

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Superannuation

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has been criticised for flagging changing the timetable for a higher superannuation guarantee....

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Superannuation

A largely unheralded technical change looks certain to impact more upper income earners on super....

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The Opposition first won and then lost the passage of legislative amendments which would have forced independent directors onto industry fund boards....

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Superannuation

Deloitte warns that taxing higher super balances may cost more to implement than it ever delivers....

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Superannuation

The FPA is hoping for minimal change around super taxes in this evening’s Budget. ...

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Financial planning

If an investor does not understand a product they should not buy it, even if their financial planner recommends it, according to ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft. ...

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