Josh Frydenberg

Features

2019 – a year of uncertainty from beginning to end

Mike Taylor writes that 2019 proved challenging for the financial advice industry not least because of the Royal Commission and the Government’s determination to impleme...

Funds management

What two Aussie equity fund managers told Josh Frydenberg

The Government has been told by two veteran fund managers it needs to look beyond the use of monetary policy if it wants to appropriately stimulate the Australian economy...

Policy & Regulation

Will ASIC’s review tell the whole story on grandfathering?

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed the degree to which grandfathering will come to an end without the Government having been fully apprised...

People & Products

SMSF Association appoints chair following Ralston resignation

The SMSF Association has appointed Robin Bowerman as its new chair, replacing Dr Deborah Ralston who has joined the Review of the Retirement Income System....

Editorial

What is really motivating the Retirement Income Review?

A significant question mark will hang over the Government’s Retirement Income Review if all it seeks to achieve is abandonment of the superannuation guarantee timetable a...

Features

Retirement incomes policy – plenty of talk, little action

Mike Taylor writes that in the half-decade of discussion around retirement incomes policy there has been plenty of talk, multiple proposals but very little real progress....

Policy & Regulation

Is the 12% SG under threat from review?

Industry superannuation funds have reinforced the fact that lifting the Superannuation Guarantee to 12% has already been legislated amid suggestions that the Government’s...

Editorial

Ending grandfathering – advisers deserve the facts

It appears that the Government moved to end grandfathering from the beginning of 2021 without knowing the precise dimensions of the issue and without taking into consider...

Financial planning

Grandfathering – ASIC relied on sample-based data

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....

Policy & Regulation

Govt extends sweep of Design and Distribution Obligations

Platform providers and those engaged in managed accounts will need to be alert to new regulations which extend the sweep of the Design and Distribution Obligations regime...

Policy & Regulation

Govt canvasses giving ASIC search warrant and phone tapping powers

The Federal Government has tabled exposure draft legislation which would give the Australian Securities and Investments Commission phone tapping and search warrant powers...

Financial planning

12-monthly opt-in back on the legislative agenda

Advisers have been urged to be mindful of the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s move to impose 12-monthly opt-in and fee disclosure arrangements....

Financial planning

AFA advocacy pack urges a slow-down

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

Policy & Regulation

Hume references central adviser disciplinary body

Financial planning organisations are seeking clarity from the Government on how its proposed new central disciplinary body for financial advisers will work and how much i...

Editorial

Is Frydenberg’s roadmap leading up a blind alley?

The financial advice industry is facing yet another layer of bureaucracy as a result of the Government’s so-called Royal Commission Implementation Roadmap but the ultimat...