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Life/Risk

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has raised the possibility that some of the direct sales models being used by life insurance companies could breach t...

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Superannuation

SuperRatings’ analysis of Australia’s best-performing superannuation funds over the last ten years is dominated by industry super funds, as the superannuation industry as...

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Financial planning

Managed Accounts Holdings has completed its acquisition of Linear Financial and commenced integration of the businesses....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has continued its attack on the Federal Government’s superannuation reforms, yesterday saying that the proposed legislation will fail to prevent ...

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Superannuation

ASFA has urged Australians to take advantage of current policy and place their tax return into a super fund....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has accused the big banks and retail super funds of deliberately confusing consumers by offering them too many super choices....

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Superannuation

Software solutions provider Class has released an insights report on the effects of superannuation policy reforms on gender equality and self-managed superannuation funds...

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Superannuation

Women now account for 38.7 per cent of super account balances, compared to 23 per cent in 1994, according to ASFA....

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Superannuation

ISA has analysed SuperRatings’ data on industry super fund performance versus retail fund performance to argue against proposed governance changes....

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Policy & Regulation

The ATO has signalled that SMSF property developments and concessional cap manipulation are on its regulatory radar....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has revealed what many of its critics wanted to see – its revenue line – but has left the veil of commercial confidentiality draped over its adve...

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Life/Risk

A life insurance policy lapse is not the issue but rather if the advice given was poor, according to a panel....

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Superannuation

The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has claimed industry and profit-to-member funds will be disadvantaged by RG97 because of the nature of their asset all...

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Superannuation

Financial planners need to communicate future uncertainty in a nuanced and careful manner, according to Milliman....

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SMSF

SMSF trustees could potentially miss out on thousands of dollars in tax savings if they miss the CGT relief election deadline, the SMSF Association warns....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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