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Aaron Dunn provides five SMSF suggestions that could be used to attract new business in 2012....
Editorial
The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...
Editorial
If Bill Shorten did not already have enough reason to announce appropriate transition periods for the implementation of FOFA and the Stronger Super legislation, he might ...
Life/Risk
The desire by superannuation fund members to retain small balance accounts to access insurance benefits poses a challenge with respect to auto-consolidation....
Editorial
The Government seems determined to bring on parliamentary debate about the FOFA bills well before the May Budget but, as Mike Taylor reports, Financial Services Minister ...
Superannuation
New Financial Services Council research backs benefits of auto-consolidation of superannuation accounts....
Superannuation
Superannuation funds are largely unprepared for the onset of the Stronger Super regime, which could see some funds lose over 10 per cent of their members, according to an...
Superannuation
Mercer has expressed concern that the Government has adopted a tranche approach to its Stronger Super legislation....
Superannuation
ASFA is arguing that superannuation funds need more time to accommodate the changes flowing from MySuper....
Superannuation
The passing of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has paved the way for an increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG)....
Financial planning
Key regulators have admitted that deliberate financial services fraud is hard to stop with or without regulatory changes....
Policy & Regulation
Superannuation fund trustees have urged the Government to provide more time and certainty for the transition to a Stronger Super and FOFA regime....
Superannuation
The Financial Ombudsman Service will be effectively operating in the dark once the FOFA reforms are introduced, according to Argyle Lawyers principal Peter Bobbin. The cl...
Financial planning
The Government's recent Stronger Super announcement states it will be phasing out the option to hold 'own occupation' Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) insurance polic...
Superannuation
The proposed ban on off-market related party transfers for self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) "goes against the grain of a simplified superannuation system", accor...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...