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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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Editorial

When Money Management’s sister publication, Super Review, conducted a Post-Retirement and Ageing Forum in Sydney, it served to underline why the superannuation sector nee...

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Editorial

While both Treasury officials and economic commentators have strongly criticised the cost of superannuation tax concessions, Mike Taylor writes that one of the men who he...

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Superannuation

Former Keating adviser Don Russell argues that the Treasury is wrong to assume the superannuation guarantee would survive the removal of tax concessions....

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Superannuation

SPAA has used its submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry to restate its claim that SMSFs are appropriately regulated. ...

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Superannuation

Financial product-style regulation would be a poor fit for SMSFs, SPAA says....

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Financial planning

The Department of Treasury has pointed to the role of financial advice in assisting consumers to engage with the financial system....

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Financial planning

Australia’s financial regulators have joined forces to back central clearing on dealer-traded derivatives....

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Financial planning

Actuaries Institute recommends creation of commission to oversee financial systems policy and decide on policy conflicts....

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Editorial

The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that Government Senators are sending plenty of messages about impending changes aimed at opening up the default funds under modern awards regime. ...

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Financial planning

AFA has accused ISA of hypocrisy for not making its FOFA submission publicly available, despite its loud calls for transparency....

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Superannuation

The FSC has warned that around 500,000 people could have their superannuation-related insurance impacted by lifting the lost-member super threshold to $6000....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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