GOVERNMENT

Policy & Regulation

The FPA has called for the Government to allow alternative methods of paying for advice, in order to increase access to financial planning services....

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Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is calling for media to “get the facts right” after news outlets reported tax concessions on super would cost ...

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Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac looks at some of the challenges and opportunities financial planners can expect over the next 12 months. ...

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Financial planning

Centrepoint’s Peter Kelly outlines some of the issues that will require the attention of the advice profession – and their possible impacts – in 2014....

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Editorial

While there are many loose ends associated with the Future of Financial Advice regime, Mike Taylor writes that the Government should avoid allowing its Financial Systems ...

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Financial planning

The Assistant Treasurer has denied claims by industry funds that changes to FOFA will water down consumer protection....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia worries that changes to FOFA will bring conflicted remuneration back to financial advice....

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Superannuation

FSC calls for tax and policy certainty on infrastructure investment while pointing to benefits of scale evolving out of super fund consolidation....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia wants the Government’s FSR process to traverse conflicts of interest and the role of sales and advice personnel....

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Financial planning

The AFA wants the Financial Systems Review to encompass both PI and the external dispute resolution processes....

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Financial planning

The FPA has urged the Financial System Review to consider the role and benefits of Self-Regulatory Organisations in the financial sector....

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Superannuation

FPA CEO Mark Rantall rebuffs ISA’s criticisms of Government’s FOFA amendments....

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Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will take over the running of the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House in a bid to reduce the compliance burden employers fac...

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Editorial

Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...

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Editorial

The Coalition signaled early that one of its first priorities if it won Government at the 2013 Federal Election would be 'Son of Wallis' – essentially an update of the Fi...

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