JOSH FRYDENBERG

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has welcomed last night’s Federal Budget, but cautioned that using ASIC’s industry funding model to pay for implementing Royal Commissi...

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Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has committed to paying unpaid Financial Ombudsman Service determinations impacting consumers and small businesses up to $30.7 million....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has delivered what it is describing as the largest personal income tax since the Howard Government....

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Superannuation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has unveiled key tweaks to superannuation policy – allowing those aged 65 and 66 to make voluntary contributions without the work t...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has issued a discussion paper canvassing lifting the minimum default levels of insurance inside superannuation as well as including total and perma...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has released the regulations which it claims will ensure grandfathered commissions lost to advisers will be directed to clients....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has budgeted to break new ground by shifting financial services criminal prosecutions away from the states and into the jurisdiction of the Federal...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have already been identified as major funding winners from next mo...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has accepted a report from the Council of Financial Regulators and the Australian Taxation Office declaring that limited recourse borrowing arrangements ar...

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Editorial

The chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Dante De Gori is absolutely right to urge the major parties against turning the final recommendations of ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government has empowered the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to deal with complaints dating back to 1 January, 2008....

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Policy & Regulation

A Government-convened forum of property and building identities has discussed the Australian Labor Party’s proposed policy changes on negative gearing and capital gains a...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has succeeded in substantially passing legislation which will significantly curtail the ability of superannuation funds to use corporate hospitalit...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has controversially amended legislation before the Parliament to target the use of corporate boxes by industry funds to influence employer default ...

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