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In the lead up to the introduction of a public financial adviser register the Australian Bankers’ Association has said it will increase transparency, protection, and conf...
Superannuation
The FSC has urged the Government to review the targeting of the age pension, suggesting current settings are too generous....
Superannuation
The FSC has bluntly challenged Treasury’s claims on the cost of superannuation tax concessions....
Financial planning
The FPA has renewed its call for the Government to make up-front advice fees tax deductible and has urged the Budget impact be assessed by the Productivity Commission....
Financial planning
Actuaries claim many Austrlaian retirees are living too frugally and barriers impeding appropriate retirement products have to be removed....
Funds management
The Council of Financial Regulators is set to conduct its second review of competition in the clearing of Australian cash equities in three years....
Superannuation
ISA’s Whiteley claims the existing default funds regime is a safety net sanctioned by three inquiries, including FSI....
Accounting
Accountants moving to become licensed have been given a generous run but are failing in high numbers when applying for a licence according to a former ASIC licensing spec...
Superannuation
For some financial planners industry superannuation funds are just another product option while for others they represent an unfair playing field and an attack on the adv...
Funds management
Super funds argue that infrastructure investment can help underpin their funding of post-retirement income products....
Editorial
As the financial planning industry proceeds further into 2015 it must accept little or no further change to FOFA but a range of new debates and opportunities....
Editorial
The immediate past chairman of the Financial Planning Association, Matthew Rowe, sees considerable significance in the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee which...
Financial planning
FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission has signalled it won’t be traversing the default funds issue in its review of the Australian Workplace Relations Framework....
Superannuation
AIST urges Government not to adopt Board of Taxation’s recommendations lifting the super payment threshold for low income workers to $1350 a quarter....
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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,...