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The Coalition government has earned only a tentative endorsement from the Financial Planning Association (FPA) following the release of its much anticipated superannuatio...
Financial planning
The financial services industry has little to fear from the re-election of a Howard Liberal Government notwithstanding the fact that the Minister for Financial Services, ...
Policy & Regulation
The Minister for Financial Services Joe Hockey has labelled the superannuation surcharge as a bad tax but says it was necessary to cover some budget shortfalls inherited ...
Financial planning
A select group of union approved financial advisers and dealer groups are set to become the unlikely beneficiaries from the much publicised collapse of Ansett....
Superannuation
The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...
Financial planning
The Insurance and Savings Ombudsman (ISO) has hit out at a New Zealand financial services firm, accusing it of undermining the credibility of its scheme in order to avoid...
Financial planning
The New Zealand Securities Commission is proposing much tougher disclosure rules for investment advisers, including giving itself the power to ban advisers....
Financial planning
A friend of mine recently went to see his financial planner for his half-yearly review. He reported that the meeting went well, his portfolio was reviewed, his current an...
Financial planning
The financial services industry has been given an extra six months to prepare for the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), after a starting date of 11 March, 2002, was ...
Financial planning
Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...
Superannuation
Most may have not noticed it, but the government has been eroding the effectiveness of the superannuation system in the past and is likely to do so again in the next ten ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expressed disappointment at the rejection of the Choice of Fund Bill in the Senate on Wednesday....
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has stepped up its support for the introduction of the proposed growth pension, to fill the existing gap in the m...
Financial planning
Controversial New Zealand economist Gareth Morgan has told financial planners they need to keep the lowlifes in the industry as a point of differentiation....
Financial planning
Advisers who recommended using a lifetime annuity to escape a 1997 ruling on means tested unemployment benefits for people over 55 should consider revising the strategy i...
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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,...