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Financial planning

The Centrelink Home Equity Access Scheme has been identified as a possible advice option for advisers, having previously been thought of as a credit product which require...

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Financial planning

Adding personal advice to Centrelink’s bulk billing framework is among recommendations put to the Quality of Advice Review by a founding member of the Financial Planning ...

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Superannuation

The Government will allow financially-stressed individuals to access tax-free of up to $10,000 of their superannuation in 2019-20 and a further $10,000 in 2020-21....

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Tools & guides

A key concern with the move to an aged care home is having enough money to fund costs, writes Minh Ly, but strategies can be used to help clients maximise their cashflow....

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People & Products

AMP has upgraded its Retirement Modelling Tool to model 900 annuity combinations, account-based pensions and Centrelink income, and stress test retirement strategies by r...

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Financial planning

An ageing population and the end of the financial year period is seeing more people consider funeral bonds, which are exempt from Centrelink assets tests....

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Financial planning

ASIC finds consumer leases market is failing low income earners and can be a very expensive household goods option....

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Aware one

It is very worrying that Stephen Jones and the Labor government are now trying to limit the access retirees have to thei...

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Aware one

Let's face it, recruitment numbers are down because the government, and their bureaucrats, have made this a dying indust...

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Fed-up

Phil Anderson is pure gold....

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

10 months ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 3 weeks ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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