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Financial planning

Margin lending has always represented a part of the financial planner’s strategy toolkit but the collapse of Storm Financial soured public perceptions of leverage. Money ...

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Editorial

It would be very easy to have read the announcement by the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, that he was pausing the FOFA change process as some sort of a vi...

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Superannuation

With eight years having passed since the ‘Simpler Super’ review, it could be time to reopen a dialogue about the future of super, Bryan Ashenden writes....

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Superannuation

Using SMSFs as a funding vehicle for infrastructure and corporate loans is critical to Australia’s future economic stability, SPAA believes....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority claims that, over time, its independence from Government has been eroded....

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Accounting

The Institute of Public Accountants has renewed calls for a lifting in superannuation concessional contribution caps....

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Policy & Regulation

The Institute of Public Accountants wants legal privilege granted to cover advice provided by tax agents....

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Financial planning

The FSC has called for a statute of limitations on group disability claims to help stabilise premium pricing....

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Policy & Regulation

Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby has explained the high cost for planners in complying with an unamended FOFA regime....

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Superannuation

The superannuation system regulatory framework is due for a review to keep up with the way people are investing in 2014, ASFA’s Financial System inquiry submission claims...

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Policy & Regulation

ISA chief executive David Whiteley calls for Government’s pause to be used to develop constructive consensus on FOFA....

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Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac examines the advantages and disadvantages of vertically integrated advice compared to self-licensing and non-aligned advice....

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Editorial

An easy line of spin is being peddled on the antecedents and consequences of the Government’s FOFA amendments. But any examination of financial services history shows the...

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Editorial

The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...

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