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People & Products
Danielle Wood, chief executive of the Grattan Institute, has been appointed as chair of the Productivity Commission as its previously announced candidate, Chris Barrett, ...
People & Products
Chris Barrett has been appointed by Treasurer Jim Chalmers as chair of the Productivity Commission to replace Michael Brennan....
People & Products
The Government is seeking a new chair for the Productivity Commission after Michael Brennan announced he would be stepping down after five years....
Life/Risk
Placing consumers and their treating doctors at the centre of the decision-making process will improve outcomes and reduce the claims costs for life insurers to keep prem...
Features
Mike Taylor writes that the Government’s Your Future, Your Super Budget announcement might look good at first blush but contains a number of wrinkles which need to be iro...
Superannuation
Legislation will be introduced next year to allow trustees to voluntarily transfer any amount of inactive low balance accounts to the tax office, spelling the beginning o...
Superannuation
The Government has moved to dilute what it sees as dominant industry voices by moving to put in place a consumer advocacy body for superannuation....
Expert Analysis
Senator Jane Hume may have spoken about changes to superannuation but, based on previous experience, writes Graeme Colley, it may be a while until they come to fruition....
Policy & Regulation
Seven different regulators combined with three different complaints and disciplinary bodies mean that financial planners have been left sinking in a regulatory swamp....
Superannuation
Super funds should tailor their portfolios for pension phase investors to take advantage of after-tax alpha....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s SMSF factsheet contains ‘an array of seemingly deliberate inaccuracies’ and should be withdrawn, according to econo...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled its continuing scepticism about mortgage broker commissions while claiming consumer research has valida...
Financial planning
Will changes to default superannuation arrangements combine with changes to income streams serve to squeeze many advisers out of the superannuation market?...
Superannuation
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees flagged that superannuation needed different treatment to other institutions by the Australian Prudential Regulation A...
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So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...