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Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has backed the Federal Government's decision to reintroduce its superannuation surcharge and co-contribution refo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been lambasted by a high profile banking and finance professor with claims it often deliberately fails to ...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released an upgraded Standard Investment Management Agreement (SIMA) emphasising the importance of active cor...

Financial planning

Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...

Superannuation

The December 2002 quarterly Retirement Income Stream Report released by Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has shown a fall in total retirement income s...

Financial planning

Investment administrator Ausmaq together with business partners Accenture, Microsoft Financial Services, Intel and Web Central yesterday launched mainhub, an electronic h...

Financial planning

Worldwide equity fund assets declined by 8.1 per cent to US$4.82 trillion in the June quarter of 2002, a result the Worldwide Mutual Fund Assets and Flows Survey says ref...

Financial planning

A war of words has begun between three industry bodies over disclosure of commissions on risk products and the viability of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have joined forces to warn the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) have joined forces in support of the Financial Services Reform Act (...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has called for submissions from stakeholders on whether it should issue guidelines on the new socially respons...

Policy & Regulation

Two of the financial services industry’s most influential lobby groups have joined forces to call on the Government to cut taxes on superannuation contributions in order ...

Financial planning

The managing director of AMP Financial Services, Craig Dunn, and the managing director of Vanguard Investments Australia, Jeremy Duffield, have been appointed to the boar...

Financial planning

Richard Gilbert has a reputation as a highly political animal, a man who revels in the political process of public policy....

Financial planning

Financial planning fees and commission have been the subject of much discussion over the years and they are once again back on the agenda....

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