Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, claims industry funds had a vested commercial interest in resisting the Government’s FOFA changes....
A major mining group has called on the Abbott Government to remove superannuation as an industrial award issue....
When Money Management’s sister publication, Super Review, conducted a Post-Retirement and Ageing Forum in Sydney, it served to underline why the superannuation sector nee...
New survey data has backed the Government’s approach on all approved MySuper products being eligible as default funds....
ASIC moves against another financial services company over misleading advertising....
The Institute of Public Accountants has joined the growing chorus of industry players arguing for the reintroduction of the LISC....
Mike Taylor writes that planners and the Government need to reflect upon how they were once again outflanked by the industry funds in the battle for the hearts and minds ...
ASIC has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it is reviewing the latest industry funds advertising campaign....
In case financial planners have not noticed, the Abbott Government’s moves to change FOFA, either by regulation or legislative amendment, has been the subject of a concer...
Close watchers of the financial services industry will have noted that for a period of about 18 months to the end of 2013 an informal truce seemed to exist between the FP...
No one should be surprised by Industry Super Australia CEO David Whiteley's response to the release by the Government of an options-stage Regulatory Impact Statement of i...
Industry funds defend the adequacy of RG 146 for their staff in delivering general advice. ...
The Corporate Super Specialists Association has questioned whether cost should be the only criteria in determining the value of industry fund MySuper offerings....
Two industry superannuation funds have broken ranks on the selection of default funds under modern awards. ...
As the financial planning industry moves into 2014 it does so in the knowledge that the Abbott Government has delivered on its undertakings to address what it regarded as...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....