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Zurich Financial Services Australia has bolstered its technical services team with the appointment of two specialists in response to adviser demand for additional regulat...

Financial planning

Investor Group will aim to roll out its risk insurance, finance broking and superannuation advice service offerings to clients of Sydney-based Greenwood BKT after today a...

Financial planning

Investors have been strongly warned against illegal schemes promising access to their superannuation before retirement by the Australian Securities and Investments Commis...

Financial planning

The Federal Government and Opposition have given only qualified commitments to review taxation on superannuation in the wake of the Association of Superannuation Funds Au...

Editorial

The listed investment company (LIC) area is a bubble ready to burst, says Dominic McCormick....

Superannuation

The findings of the Australian Taxation Office’s recent SMSF Compliance Review benchmarking study requires closer consideration, says Kevin Smith....

Superannuation

David Shirlow looks at new developments affecting cashing and transfer of UK superannuation benefits for Australian residents....

Financial planning

The Money Management Financial Planner of the Year Award is now in its 15th year since awarding the inaugural prize in 1989 to David Worley....

Financial planning

The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...

Life/Risk

By structuring the ownership of personal life insurance policies via superannuation, it may be possible to fund such premiums from pre-tax earnings, says Andrew Lowe....

Financial planning

Question: Are insurance bonds still a viable alternative to invest for children? I recall that the taxation treatment of insurance products such as bonds and endowment po...

Financial planning

Financial planners offering advice on pension transfers from the UK face litigation for failing to research the full implications of transferring client funds to Australi...

Superannuation

Trustees of self managed superannuation funds have been warned by the Australian Taxation Office that it intends progressively moving beyond education to enforcement....

Financial planning

The financial planning arm of Mercer HR Consulting - Mercer Financial Planning - is executing a new business strategy to enable it to offer a full suite of financial serv...

Financial planning

Small and medium business owners tend to be too focused on sales and turnover and need guidance on how to derive personal wealth, according to Westpac Banking Corporation...

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