MONEY MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

With less than a week till the ceremony, excitement is building for Money Management and Lonsec’s night of nights – Fund Manager of the Year. ...

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Superannuation

A roundtable has agreed that Australia needs a Government-sanctioned retirement incomes adequacy index and a shift from lump sums to income streams....

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Superannuation

Leading superannuation barrister Noel Davis says it’s time for the Government to consider legislating to require super benefits to be paid as pensions rather than lump su...

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Superannuation

New survey data has backed the Government’s approach on all approved MySuper products being eligible as default funds....

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Superannuation

New research confirms most superannuation fund executives and trustees believe few members understand what super is delivering in terms of insurance cover....

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Superannuation

A new survey has revealed that over a third of super fund sector personnel have considered establishing an SMSF....

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Financial planning

A Money Management round-table recently discussed whether financial advisers were appropriately experienced and educated to provide appropriate advice on margin lending....

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Financial planning

Margin lending has always represented a part of the financial planner’s strategy toolkit but the collapse of Storm Financial soured public perceptions of leverage. Money ...

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Editorial

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 ...

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Financial planning

Money Management has announced the finalists for one of its flagship awards for 2014, BDM of the year....

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Financial planning

Former Reserve Bank Governor, Ian Macfarlane will headline the Morningstar Investment Conference in Sydney on 15 May. ...

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Financial planning

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby has explained the high cost for planners in complying with an unamended FOFA regime....

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Editorial

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

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People & Products

A new recruitment search is underway as a result of Michael Carter resigning his position as Bridges CEO....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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