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Nathalie Bouquet details what steps advisers can take to ensure their retiring clients make the most of continuing Government concessions....

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Financial planning

It's been an issue that's ruffled feathers across the industry, but is scaled advice finally gaining traction in the planning world? Kate Cowling investigates. ...

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Editorial

For the chief executives of financial services companies struggling to fund the cost of compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment, the 2013-14 annual report o...

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Superannuation

ASFA chairman calls on industry to get its house in order or risk having it done by outside forces....

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Funds management

Victims of the Trio Capital collapse have accused the Federal Opposition of jumping on their bandwagon for political populism....

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Financial planning

Financial services companies are almost matching government regulatory costs with their own self-inflicted rules, and effectively “choking themselves in red tape”....

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Life/Risk

Office space in Adelaide is expected to continue to provide low rental returns for investors as an oversupply drags rents down, a new report reveals....

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Financial planning

The financial advisers’ register is missing key bits of information, defeating the purpose of the register to make information transparent to consumers....

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Funds management

Australian financial services providers must abandon their “short-term performance culture” if they are to take advantage of opportunities in Asia, Connect CEO, Paul Tyna...

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Financial planning

The Government has rejected a Royal Commission into Commonwealth FP claiming the bank’s Open Advice Review Program should be allowed to work....

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Funds management

ASIC has been told there needs to be greater clarity between what represents a ‘fee’ and a ‘cost’ in Product Disclosure Statements....

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Policy & Regulation

Efforts to improve the standards of the financial planning sector are driving the cost of advice beyond the reach of average Australians, William Buck reports. ...

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Editorial

If Storm Financial has dogged the reputations of financial planners, Mike Taylor writes that the findings of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corrupti...

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Superannuation

Dimitri Diamantes canvasses how the Government should approach buy-sell in super and how the industry may respond....

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Superannuation

Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden, has labelled the existing default super regime a “racket” which is standing in the way of lower super fees....

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