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Financial planning

Shorten urged to address excess contributions issue amid news that 65,000 were caught last financial year....

Editorial

New legislation governing how superannuation fund trustees may borrow under a limited recourse borrowing arrangement has left a number of questions unanswered, says Bryce...

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Financial planning

Offering individually managed accounts to high-net-worth clients can be a scalable solution for financial advisers, writes Damian Graham....

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Financial planning

As Australia's population continues to age, Virginia Harrison looks at the recent developments in the retirement products sector, and asks: is enough being done to addres...

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Policy & Regulation

Project Wickenby has raised more that $850 million in tax liabilities and charged 57 people since its inception five years ago....

Financial planning

The ATO believes its Project Wickenby crackdown has succeeded in changing attitudes to tax havens....

Financial planning

Despite the uncertainty created by worldwide regulation and the European sovereign debt crisis, the long-term future for financial stocks is bright, writes Sotiris Boutsi...

Financial planning

The world economy is not expected to experience a double-dip recession, but is likely to hail a new period of low global growth, according to investment experts Paul Tayl...

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office has seen more than 360 convictions for tax and superannuation offences in the second quarter of this year....

Tools & guides

Deborah Wixted discusses the options for terminally ill clients who want to withdraw their superannuation before preservation age....

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Financial planning

The ATO has provided special assistance to Cairns businesses in the wake of the Storm Financial collapse....

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Editorial

The electoral cycle has overtaken the Government's agenda to change the financial planning industry and, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate outcome will be dictated by ...

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Financial planning

Australia compares favourably to other Western nations in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook with stronger growth, lower unemployment and much lower debt....

Financial planning

Small business director James O'Rourke has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail by the NSW District Court for using a scheme to avoid paying tax on his overseas...

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Financial planning

Countplus, a subsidiary of Count Financial, has made two further acquisitions of accounting and financial services firms - taking the total number of it acquisitions to 1...

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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