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The key lobby groups making up the financial services industry are hoping to see the first draft of the legislation emanating from the Government’s Future of Financ...
Financial planning
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has taken a largely sympathetic approach to an option within a Treasury options paper to alter the Australian F...
Financial planning
Richard Klipin takes a look at 2010 and the impact it has had on the financial planning industry....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has moved to simplify the GST arrangements regarding taxes, fees and charges....
Financial planning
While there has been some speculation that Perpetual would be the next logical takeover target in a rapidly consolidating Australian wealth management industry, few expec...
Editorial
As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...
Financial planning
New generation platform providers have criticised the ‘preferential programs’ initiated by their peers, claiming they have the potential to bias the advice gi...
Policy & Regulation
The Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, has released a discussion paper around the proposed changes to income tax laws....
Financial planning
The majority of advisers surveyed by Radar Results believe it is likely they will lose clients as a result of the opt in for continuing advice reform....
Policy & Regulation
The industry needs to move beyond telling Treasury why opt-in requirements and banning volume rebates won’t work and start offering solutions to the problems, accor...
Financial planning
The Government is not likely to budge on the implementation of an opt-in provision but is flexible on how it is achieved....
Financial planning
The inspector general of taxation has recommended the abolishment of the oral rulings system to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), in view of the continuing low level ...
Life/Risk
Insurers including Zurich, Asteron and ING have called on Treasury to reveal some of its intentions concerning commissions for life insurance....
Superannuation
The SPAA has recommended an ‘opt-out’ from the superannuation guarantee as a way for people with multiple employers to avoiding incurring significant tax pena...
Financial planning
The Treasury has deferred the application of the National Tax Agent Services regime to financial planners until 1 July, 2011, a move which has been applauded by financial...
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Podcast
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...