As it continues its discussions with industry, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the commencement of upcoming disclosure benchmarks...
Specialist life insurer NobleOak has announced the launch of a new product aimed at the SMSF market....
In just one week, inactive super accounts with under $2000 will be sent to the ATO....
ASFA reflects views of industry by maintaining its opposition to an industry levy to pay for AUSTRAC....
The Opposition first won and then lost the passage of legislative amendments which would have forced independent directors onto industry fund boards....
Jack Flader, the US lawyer named as being connected to the Trio/Astarra collapse, now knows what it is like to be thrashed with a damp lettuce leaf. ...
The inclusion of specific funding for the Tax Practitioners Board sees the FPA writing to the Government for another extension....
The ATO has been funded to crack-down on the use of trust structures to avoid tax....
The Federal Budget has receive only a lukewarm response from the financial services industry despite the Government limiting its changes to superannuation to those announ...
As expected, the Government has limited its Budget support for the financial services regulators....
The Government has sought to use the Federal Budget to close off what it describes as a tax loophole that has allowed investors to indulge in so-called ‘dividend washing’...
In a move that was flagged ahead of the Budget and will please some sections of the financial services industry, the Government has moved to make deferred lifetime annuit...
The FPA is hoping for minimal change around super taxes in this evening’s Budget. ...
The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia has come out in support of the Government’s announced charter group as an initial step in the establishment of a Council ...
The expected 2013 Budget cuts to the Public Service may encompass APRA and ASIC....
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,...