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Policy & Regulation

The major banks have formed a united front to call for a Government-backed inquiry into banking and financial services to remove all uncertainty....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has made what amounts to an election speech to a Canberra business dinner....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has been warned against rushing the implementation of its new financial services external dispute resolution regime amid claims of shortened consul...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has accused the federal Government of using its proposed superannuation bills to pursue an ideological attack on industry superannuation funds....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the Turnbull Government’s determination to avoid a Royal Commission may have resulted in successive exercises in political expediency and the purs...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has drawn upon comments from new ASIC chairman, James Shipton, to attack both the banks and the Government’s legislation aimed at imposing govern...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has accused the Government of caving in to the banks by pursuing changes to superannuation fund governance....

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned the Government its EDR and regulator funding measures risk making financial advice unaffordable and forcing the exit of s...

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Superannuation

The governance of industry superannuation funds is a key driver of their superior outperformance, ISA believes....

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Policy & Regulation

General industry resistance to the inclusion of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in the proposed new Australian Financial Complaints Authority means the Government’...

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry has welcomed the Government’s measure to provide the ATO more funding for its SG taskforce to help crackdown on SG non-compliance....

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund trustees should not be subject to the same penalties that apply to directors of Managed Investment Schemes and should be allowed lee-way for ‘honest m...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government needs to diagnose what Australians are actually angry about before holding a Royal Commission, according to the former Treasurer....

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Tools & guides

Sean Howard looks at strategies advisers can use to maximise Age Pension entitlements, minimise income-tested care fees, and provide income to a person that needs home ca...

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Financial planning

Industry submissions have revealed the level of self-managed superannuation fund industry concerns around the Government’s proposed changes to LRBA arrangements....

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