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The corporate regulator has released a consultation paper detailing proposals to allow general insurers to operate without a licence and in a separate initiative, has pro...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has been criticised for not scrapping the superannuation surcharge immediately on Budget night, and for not affording the same generosity with its ...
Financial planning
More than a million consumers will be better off and an indelible administration load has been lifted from the superannuation industry after Treasurer Peter Costello’s su...
People & Products
The Federal Government has named Watson Wyatt as the asset consultant to assist in developing the investment mandates for the Future Fund....
Financial planning
The Government’s Senate majority may lead to changes in taxation law in 2005, writes Mark Molesworth....
Financial planning
Proposed changes that could shorten the length of disclosure documents and bring much needed relief from burdensome Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements have been endor...
Editorial
A strong majority of people working in the superannuation industry believe the Government’s co-contribution regime has been a success....
Editorial
Most Australians are under-insured, but how much cover is enough? Ken Lockery discusses the pitfalls for consumers....
Editorial
A substantial portion of the Australian superannuation industry are ill-prepared for the Government’s new choice of fund regime, according to the findings of the latest I...
Policy & Regulation
The Prime Minister, John Howard has ruled out further cuts to the taxation regime applying to superannuation during the life of the current Parliament...
Superannuation
Controversial Government plans to ban self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) from providing defined benefit pensions have been delayed while Assistant Treasurer Mal Br...
Financial planning
CPA Australia has made a number of recommendations designed to restrict statements of advice to ten pages, including production of an industry-wide booklet containing gen...
Financial planning
The superannuation industry has welcomed changes to superannuation included in the Federal Budget but doesn’t believe the Government has gone far enough....
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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,...