Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) for its lack of understanding of the financial advice industry structure, highli...
The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...
Australian financial services institutions have received some breathing space with regards to the implementation of FOFA and Stronger Super as the US announces a six-mont...
Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...
The finance sector outlook is positive, but change will be an ongoing feature....
Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....
Those hardest hit by the $100,000 limit on the pension income tax exemption may well be those left behind after the death of an SMSF pensioner, according to Bryce Figot a...
Independent planners have been squeezed out of tendering for corporate superannuation - or so it seems for now. ...
Tumultuous events in Canberra open the question of who will get the Financial Services portfolio....
Treasury Group has appointed former Mercer chief investment officer Andrew Howard to take up the same post in its Melbourne office. ...
ASFA has called for an independent review of large SuperStream costs....
When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....
It was not a formal valedictory but Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, used an FSC function to thank those involved in the FOFA and financial services policy chan...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...