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Funds management

ASIC has been told there needs to be greater clarity between what represents a ‘fee’ and a ‘cost’ in Product Disclosure Statements....

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Superannuation

AustralianSuper has joined a growing list of supporters for a MyPension product....

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Financial planning

The financial services sector needs a new ASIC commissioner specifically to deal with international regulatory issues....

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Funds management

Strong performances by boutique partners have seen Treasury Group’s FUM rise by 49 per cent in the last financial year....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government appears to have more clearly defined the boundaries of stakeholder status for ASIC and APRA....

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Financial planning

The FSC is pressing the Goverment to form a financial services export coordination body....

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Financial planning

Treasury Group announces merger transaction with US-based multi-boutique, Northern Lights....

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Financial planning

The Government has launched a review of post-retirement products with a Treasury paper acknowledging current rules are imposing limitations. ...

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Policy & Regulation

Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....

Financial planning

Draft proposals to waive the tax and commercial law course requirements for registration under the TASA are being welcomed by the AFA....

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Financial planning

The draft Tax Agent Services Act regulations have proposed waiving tax and commercial law course requirements for financial planners with relevant experience....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC, Treasury and the TPB have been urged to ensure the harmonisation of the standards applied to advisers....

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Financial planning

The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...

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Superannuation

Claims that tax concessions on superannuation will cost the Government $2 trillion a year are based on inaccurate figures and assumptions the Association of Superannuatio...

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Superannuation

The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...

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