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The Federal Government has released draft legislation allowing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to recoup its costs from industry at the rate of $175....
Superannuation
Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, has announced that the Government will make legislative changes to grant victims of serious crimes access to p...
Policy & Regulation
The major backers of establishing an Australian Financial Complaints Authority have welcomed passage of the necessary legislation through the Parliament....
Funds management
CommBank has said proposed changes to New Zealand legislation hybrid capital securities will not impact PERLS distributions....
Policy & Regulation
General industry resistance to the inclusion of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in the proposed new Australian Financial Complaints Authority means the Government’...
Life/Risk
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has heard a case on encumbered property which was resolved against a contrary intention....
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that when the Government introduced the ‘significance test’ to the AFSL breach reporting regime in 2003 it was seen as sensible moderation but all that...
Policy & Regulation
The Government has been warned that there are significant tax treatment shortcomings in draft legislation being contemplated to underpin the new MyRetirement regime capab...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government introduced the ASIC industry funding model bill into Parliament on Thursday, which would require entities to fund it rather than taxpayers....
Superannuation
Superannuation was no longer the efficient investment tool for high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs to build their wealth, according to a tax strategist....
Financial planning
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, has introduced the bill to mandate professional standards and education into Parliament today....
Financial planning
Australians were suffering depression, sleepless nights, alcohol and substance abuse from financial stress, according to Acorns Grow Australia. ...
Superannuation
The Government needs to consult as widely as possible on the practical consequences involved in super reforms, as it faced an uphil battle through a fragmented Senate mak...
Features
Financial planners talk about what the costs of implementing FOFA have been for their practices even as they contemplate the next suite of changes stemming from tinkering...
Superannuation
The Federal Government is being urged to upgrade the status of unpaid superannuation guarantee entitlements and include them in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee regime....
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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,...