A weaker global banking system is forcing businesses to seek credit elsewhere, which is creating opportunities for private credit internationally and in Australia, accord...
AIST calls for subsidisation of pre-retirement financial advice and tax deductibility for other advice....
The challenges of 2009 have demonstrated the underlying strength of the super industry, writes Pauline Vamos....
A new submission to the Cooper Review has suggested that the dominance of financial planning by banking institutions is more worrying than the payment of commissions....
Australian superannuation funds could have been buffered from the onslaught of the global financial crisis if they had invested more in Australian agriculture, according ...
The Virgin Money super fund has announced it will stop charging management fees for members on maternity or paternity leave, and is calling on other super funds to do the...
With universal rejection of the proposal to mandate superannuation investment into infrastructure assets, the search for alternative methods to meet the shortfall in infr...
Hit hard by the global financial crisis, the value of infrastructure in portfolios is being questioned by investors, writes Amal Awad....
Tax is second largest cost incurred by funds but is not given due regard by fund executives, according to consultant Gabriel Szondy....
The former chief executive of Westpac, David Morgan, has warned that overly competitive BDMs and excessively conservative lawyers could get in the way of simple advice....
New software is being introduced that will allow superannuation funds to take members right through to a draft Statement of Advice - all online and without needing to tal...
Count Financial has warned that any move to use super to fund policy objectives other than retirement carries significant risk....
Super funds rejecting intra-fund advice relief and turning to the associated Regulatory Guide to develop advice offerings....
Class Financial Systems to provide SMSF platform for accountants....
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and the FTSE Group have launched the FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series, claimed to be the industry standard tax-adjust...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....