STRONGER SUPER

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has supported the view of Richard St John that a last resort compensation scheme would be 'inappropriate and counterproductive' for the fin...

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Superannuation

Institute of Chartered Accountants specialist Liz Westover questions who is really paying for the Government's Federal Budget changes to superannuation....

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Financial planning

The Government has confirmed the degree to which the financial services industry will be slugged to deliver on elements of its Stronger Super levy....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds "should be as transparent as listed companies", says Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden....

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Editorial

The collapse of Storm Financial and Trio Capital are cited as the catalysts for strengthening the powers of the regulators via FOFA and Stronger Super, but as Mike Taylor...

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Financial planning

APRA reveals just how much it costs to travel and regulate....

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Financial planning

Australia's current financial markets' regulatory structure gives it an advantage compared to the byzantine structures in other markets, according to Nick Sherry....

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Superannuation

ASFA has warned that the Government's inaction on CGT relief will be an impediment to its implementation of Stronger Super....

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Financial planning

Financial Services Council sponsored research accuses unions and financial planners of "gaming" the default superannuation fund regime....

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Life/Risk

The Government needs to start talking to the major insurers about a standardised approach to auto-consolidation....

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Policy & Regulation

The FPA and AFA will continue to press for amendments to FOFA despite the 12-month implementation period....

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Editorial

Recent suggestions that Kevin Rudd would offer Bill Shorten the Treasury portfolio in the event Rudd returned to the prime ministership is a reflection of the silliness t...

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Superannuation

SMSFs were one of the target areas for the Stronger Super reforms and while SPAA was broadly happy with the proposed measures, it still has some concerns about implementa...

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Superannuation

Freya Purnell takes a closer look at what life after Stronger Super might bring to the superannuation sector....

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Superannuation

David Shirlow explains how to use insurance to address SMSF property investment liquidity....

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