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Policy & Regulation

Observers attending the parliamentary committees reviewing the FOFA bills are concerned at the absence of the Australian Greens....

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has asked the Government to allow a one-year transition timeframe for the implementation of the Future of Financial Advice reforms....

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Editorial

If Bill Shorten did not already have enough reason to announce appropriate transition periods for the implementation of FOFA and the Stronger Super legislation, he might ...

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Life/Risk

The desire by superannuation fund members to retain small balance accounts to access insurance benefits poses a challenge with respect to auto-consolidation....

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Editorial

The Government seems determined to bring on parliamentary debate about the FOFA bills well before the May Budget but, as Mike Taylor reports, Financial Services Minister ...

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Financial planning

Australia's key financial planning industry organisations have been heartened by a declaration by NSW independent Rob Oakeshott that he will oppose 'opt-in' when the Gove...

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Financial planning

Platform providers have invested around $130 million on new developments in 2011, with MLC Wrap and Navigator platforms receiving the highest ranking from financial plann...

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Financial planning

Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....

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Financial planning

Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....

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Superannuation

Given the Government's push to improve insurance levels in the SMSF sector, Cameron Peck outlines the technicalities and implications of taking out death and permanent di...

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Superannuation

SMSF trustees are less confident about reaching their target retirement income than they were a year ago, according to an SPAA study....

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Superannuation

The Government's draft changes to limited recourse borrowing arrangements with SMSFs have served to clarify the issue....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten has signalled an appropriate implementation period for the Future of Financial Advice changes....

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Policy & Regulation

FOFA bills still risk making financial advice more inaccessible, says Financial Services Council's John Brogden....

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Financial planning

The Coalition would immediately replace the "closed-shop, anti-competitive" selection of default funds under modern awards with an "open, transparent and competitive proc...

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