The Investment and Financial Services Association has called for a three-year deferral of the introduction of dollar fee disclosure regulations on closed financial servic...
The Federal Government will kick off the multi-million dollar awareness campaign surrounding choice of superannuation fund in April....
One of the major accounting bodies has stepped up its lobbying on superannuation, claiming self-employed people are significantly disadvantaged when it comes to retiremen...
The Association of Superannuation Funds Australia has called for further clarity in the Government’s proposed regulations covering fee disclosure relating to superannuati...
The Federal Government has announced that it will hold another round of industry consultation on choice of fund, after new draft regulations outlining the implementation ...
Inadequate professional indemnity (PI) insurance is proving a major compliance hurdle for financial planning dealer groups, the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...
Relief from burdensome Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements for planners who provide direct equity advice could be imminent, with the Financial Planning Association (FP...
The corporate regulator has given the strongest indication yet that it will act to ease the compliance burden on advisers under the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act, h...
The Federal Government has moved quickly after its October 9 election win to clear the way for the implementation of its retirement incomes policy and has launched a disc...
The Federal Government has sought to use statements on the use of superannuation funds made by the Federal Opposition leader, Mark Latham up to six years' ago to suggest ...
A robust market with an appetite for boutiques has aided listed financial services firm Treasury Group to double funds under management for the year ending June 30, and i...
The Federal Government has been accused of applying a “sledgehammer approach to regulation” after Opposition Minister for Retirement Incomes and Savings Senator Nick Sher...
Complying pensions within SMSFs have been given a year long reprieve after widespread industry and community protest. Jason Spits looks at how the change came about and w...
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...