Superannuation assets grew 14 per cent in the 1998/99 financial year, with industry and retail fund assets the fastest growing market segments, according to the latest AP...

Self managed super funds are facing some of the biggest legislated changes in their short history. Grant Abbott takes a look at the progress of SLAB 3 and SLAB 4 legislat...

New year's day 2001 has been slated as the date CLERP 6 comes into action, six months later than originally planned....

Insurance bonds can still be a valuable investment tool and should not be ig-nored by financial planners, according to Mike Newton, director of Sovereign Funds Management...

The Investment Savings and Insurance Association (ISI) has presented its tax reform proposals to the leaders of the major political parties as a platfom for discussion....

Whatever your opinion on the merits of the GST, the time has come to change all your systems to implement the new regime. ...

Time is running out in the Federal government’s push to get choice of fund through Parliament in this sitting, though it remains confident of a deal with the Australian D...

In mid August, the Treasurer released a consultative paper on the application of the GST to financial services. Funds managers, life and general insurers, trustees of sup...

Financial services groups are reeling under the strain of a massive upheaval of their businesses once the implications of the GST and the upcoming Ralph Report hit home. ...

In April the Federal Government released a draft to industry of its bill changing the investment standards for superannuation funds (see <I>Money Management</I> May 13). ...

The series of changes circulating through the finance industry has be-come daunting. The implications of GST and the upcoming Ralph Re-port loom large for all concerned b...

The implementation of a wider GST on financial services poses a serious threat to financial planners, according to industry figures....

The Federal Government has recently introduced a bill into parliament which could have wide ranging effects on self managed superannuation funds. Nick In-gram takes a loo...

The series of changes circulating through the finance industry has become daunting. The implications of GST and the upcoming Ralph Report loom large for all concerned but...