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Policy & Regulation

Financial planners have renewed their lobbying efforts on FOFA - but the key independents are playing their cards very close to the chests....

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Editorial

Something became very clear when Money Management recently conducted a roundtable focusing on the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation tabled in the Parliament e...

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Superannuation

The Opposition is not trying to wage a war against industry superannuation funds, but the FOFA bill has to be fair across the entire industry, said Shadow Minister for Fi...

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Financial planning

Opt-in and best-interest reforms are a waste of time and a cost burden, according to Alexis Compliance and Risk Solutions director Christina Kalantzis....

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Policy & Regulation

A Money Management roundtable reveals consensus around rising cost of FOFA and the influence of Industry Super Network....

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Funds management

ASIC has recommended asset level disclosure on hedge funds as it pursues tighter requirements in a post-Astarra/Trio environment....

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Superannuation

SPAA chief denies that SMSFs are particularly susceptible to fraud or illegal early release super schemes....

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Financial planning

The integrity of consumer group Choice over its potentially conflicted partnership with One Big Switch has been questioned yet again, with Financial Services Council chie...

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Superannuation

Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) says fraud and theft is not limited to superannuation but all Australian investors....

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Editorial

A significant portion of the Australian population does not understand what constitutes financial advice and that it remains far too easy for people operating well outsid...

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Editorial

Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

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Financial planning

Sentiment among Australian financial advisers appeared to be heading down even before last week's Government announcement about the Future of Financial Advice changes....

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Editorial

The Future of Financial Advice changes may be dominating the attention of the financial services industry but Richard Gilbert points out that the Government has a great d...

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Editorial

ASIC, hard-pressed for funding and resources, has embarked on a costly exercise aimed at determining the quality of retirement advice at a time when the underlying rules ...

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Editorial

In its pre-Budget submission to the Federal Government, the Financial Planning Association called on the Government to implement a range of initiatives to support the cur...

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