The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has used its pre-budget submission for the next financial year to again call for the complete abolishment of the 15 p...
Australian couples will now be able to split their superannuation contributions after January 1, 2006, with legislation ratifying the move passed by the Senate....
Forthcoming governments will be prevented from raiding the Future Fund under legislation introduced to Federal Parliament defining the parameters within which the new fun...
The latest Income and Wealth Report on labour force statistics produced by AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has shown premature retirement fo...
Federal Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough has labelled Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley’s plan to channel superannuation monies toward new infrastructure projects as a ...
With new anti-money laundering legislation expected any day, Ernst & Young partner Rob Walsh has warned financial advisers that the Government will expect them to practic...
A fantastic financial planning opportunity is waiting ahead. We have been promised and teased for a few years about the prospect of splitting superannuation contributions...
Three-quarters of Australians would prefer the superannuation contributions tax to be scrapped rather than a tax cut, and only 7 per cent of the public has changed supera...
The estimated $140 billion that will go into the Federal Government’s Future Fund over the next 15 years may not be managed by external fund managers, but controlled inte...
The establishment of the Commonwealth’s Future Fund, along with the ongoing implementation of the Federal Government’s Retirement Incomes Policy, has earned Federal Treas...
There can scarcely be a financial planner in Australia who would begrudge Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce his inclusion on Money Management’s list o...
The unprecedented influence that the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA’s) chief executive Kerrie Kelly has had over the financial planning profession in the last 12 m...
Creating another four example statements of advice, including one with a “real fair dinkum super switch”, will be among the corporate regulator’s chief tasks in the year ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...