In any situation, humans have a natural tendency to take sides and look for someone, or something, to blame when we hear some alarming or bad news....

State Governments have been called on to extend the scope of ‘choice of fund’ to cover all employees and not just those covered under Federal Awards, with one of Australi...

Advisers looking for an alternative to the usual philanthropic vehicles can now use a prescribed private fund, Lisa Chambers and Paula Zammit write....

With a Coalition Government not only returned to power, but also set to gain control of the Senate, what is the outlook for superannuation?...

The financial services industry has been given three short weeks by Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Mal Brough to comment on a consultation paper which will ...

It’s been another busy week for financial planner Jennifer Moss. If it’s not new legislation to deal with, it’s clients confusing you with the Yellow Pages, she writes in...

Financial planners are about to test the waters with term allocated pensions. Ross Kelly reports....

Financial planning in John Howard’s electorate of Bennelong isn’t a case of preaching to the converted as David Carney tells Rebecca Evans. Like politics, it’s all about ...

Not many fund managers have made the trek to Ingleburn to take Stephen Varhegyi out to lunch because soft dollar isn’t really what it’s about in Latham’s electorate. Rebe...

If you think this Federal election is a fizzer, then consider this: if the Labor party manages to unseat the Government in less than two weeks time, you will no longer be...

So you think there is nothing to vote for at the upcoming federal election? If you are a financial planner, think again, writes Rebecca Evans....

The Financial Planning Association will continue to lobby the Coalition Government following John Howard’s landslide victory in Saturday’s federal election, with the aim ...

Superannuation has re-emerged as a Federal Election issue with the Coalition poking holes in Labor’s tax policy and the Opposition lashing out at Government plans to forc...

The Federal Government has turned up the heat on the Labor party to outline how it will pay for $1.4 billion worth of planned superannuation tax cuts, as retirement savin...