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Financial planning
AIST warns against the 'dumbing down' of existing balanced super funds and a potential worsening of the underinsurance problem; ASFA calls for legislative support to impr...
Financial planning
The first preliminary report of the Cooper Review has pointed to a new architecture for the superannuation industry based on members rather than products, with trustees a...
Financial planning
Small employers will run fewer risks of incurring penalties on superannuation guarantee payments by utilising the Government’s new super clearing house....
Editorial
Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....
Superannuation
The financial services industry has been called upon to step up to its social obligations when dealing with trustees of self-managed superannuation funds....
Policy & Regulation
Research commissioned by ASFA sends a strong warning to the Federal Government not to dip further into the superannuation pool, while also pointing to a lack of confidenc...
Financial planning
Recent events have served to significantly undermine Australians’ confidence in super as a savings vehicle, and the industry has its work cut out to restore that faith....
Financial planning
BT Financial Group has called on the Cooper Review to make super portability an easier exercise for consumers....
Financial planning
Big industry fund, Unisuper, wants trustees granted safe harbour from prosecution based on member investment decisions....
Editorial
Concessions and how people should access and pay for advice have emerged as the key issues in relation to superannuation and financial services reform....
Editorial
Chris Bowen has sent a clear message that the Government will be cherry-picking the recommendations of the Henry Tax Review....
Financial planning
The IFSA submission to the Cooper Review has argued that advice should be expressly recognised in superannuation legislation....
Editorial
The global financial crisis has dampened Australians’ ardour for lump sum superannuation payouts, with the result that a rash of new pension products are coming to market...
Policy & Regulation
Advisers need to rethink long-term strategies of holding TPD super cover....
Financial planning
Transferring commercial property into a self-managed superannuation fund may lead to significant taxation benefits....
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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....