Hannah Wootton

Hannah Wootton

Hannah is a journalist at Money Management and Super Review. She has previously written on law, society, media, and design.

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ASIC has engaged UNSW to survey Australian fund managers that may be impacted by the European Union’s MiFID II rules, noting that the regulations may become an unofficial...

Advisers helping clients with estate planning may need to consider more than they bargained for, with funeral plots and burial rites often causing headaches when inadequa...

Couples or families relying on two incomes could hit dire financial straits if one income earner was unable to work, but many individuals in that situation aren’t adequat...

Legislation that passed the Senate last week could see fees slashed to less than three per cent on five million superannuation funds, with AMP, Hostplus, and ANZ OnePath ...

Despite many everyday expenses rising at the end of last year, such as medical services, postage, and meat, the cost of living for retirees only rose slightly for the Dec...

The banks should offer customers independent advice on remediation or risk both a “relentless flow” of class actions and a widening trust deficit....

FASEA will provide guidance to planners facing both the exam and Code of Ethics but hasn’t confirmed how long before the professionalisation regime kicks in in full force...

Negative sentiment in the industry around Labor’s proposed franking dividends reform is still running high as Federal election predictions heat up, at least amongst advis...

The Australian Taxation Office has said that it’s already referred 37 SMSF auditors to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since last June, as part of th...

22 Feb

The Australian Taxation Office last year focused its self-managed superannuation fund compliance investigations on non-lodgements, advice on illegal early release of fund...

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