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PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE

Editorial

Ambition should be made of smarter stuff

As the curtain comes down on the current Parliament, financial services players are left to wonder whether the Government should not have just stuck to the script reflect...

Superannuation

Industry funds: change advice definition in TASA

AIST and ISN are calling for a clearer definition of the word 'advice’, as the current wording of TASA prohibits industry super funds from providing intra-fund advice. ...

Financial planning

Coalition will revisit TASA post-election, if necessary

The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....

Financial planning

Treasury TASA document proves case for delay

FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....

Financial planning

Dissenting report expected on TASA

The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...

Financial planning

D-Day looms for PJC on TASA

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

Editorial

Financial planners hampered by FOFA doubts

The Future of Financial Advice regime will become law from 1 July, but as the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo points out, many questions vital to the finan...

Financial planning

Govt grants breathing space on TASA bill

The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....

Financial planning

FPA writes to parliamentarians on TASA

The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....

Accounting

TASA bill back to committee

First it was off, now it’s back on as the independents support the TASA bill going to the PJC....

Financial planning

Enshrinement passes House of Representatives

Only the Coalition in the Senate stands between the passage of the legislation enshrining ‘planner’/‘adviser’....

Editorial

May the will power be with you

Jack Flader, the US lawyer named as being connected to the Trio/Astarra collapse, now knows what it is like to be thrashed with a damp lettuce leaf. ...

Editorial

Growing on merit – not by compulsion

An important statistical snippet came to light during the hearings into legally enshrining the terms ‘financial planner/adviser’ – nearly 50 per cent of planners/advisers...

Superannuation

Implementation of consumer protection the key

Following the Federal Government's response to the parliamentary inquiry into the collapse of Trio Capital and the report into compensation arrangements for consumers of ...

Financial planning

FPA critical of Government’s response to St John report

The FPA has hit back at the Government’s claim that financial adviser misconduct is the only reason why compensation has been awarded to victims of the Trio Capital colla...