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Financial planning
The Small Independent Superannuation Funds Association (SISFA) is appealing to financial planners to join its ranks in a bid to better represent self-managed superannuati...
Financial planning
Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...
Financial planning
Strong growth by self managed super funds and industry funds helped boost Australian superan-nuation assets by 16.6 per cent in 1999, according to the latest Australian P...
Financial planning
<I>To amend or not to amend That is the question Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the ATO Or by amendment to quell them To amend, per cha...
Superannuation
A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...
Financial planning
A legal technicality in the new SLAB3 legislation is threatening Australia’s 300,000+ self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). The legislation, due to come into effect ...
Financial planning
Details have emerged of a $600,000 fraud in AMP Asset Management’s Melbourne office. Last December, Financial Synergy found a $200,000 anomaly in its Top Quartile Superan...
Financial planning
More details have emerged of AMP Asset Management’s $600,000 fraud in the Melbourne office....
Financial planning
Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society has reported a drop in post-tax profits to $1.4 million for the 1999 financial year....
Superannuation
Superannuation assets grew 14 per cent in the 1998/99 financial year, with industry and retail fund assets the fastest growing market segments, according to the latest AP...
Financial planning
Self managed super funds are facing some of the biggest legislated changes in their short history. Grant Abbott takes a look at the progress of SLAB 3 and SLAB 4 legislat...
Life/Risk
Since their earliest days, life insurance companies have been some-thing of a mysterious black box to analysts, advisers and the public. The mystery of the life insuranc...
Financial planning
When we last left our favourite lemming, newly annointed dealer principal Nick Bruining, being atacked by a group of brochure delivery men (BDMs). In this exciting instal...
Financial planning
Self managed super funds are continuing to go through boom times. With the lead up to June 30, an unprecedented number of self-managed super funds are being es-tablished....
Financial planning
The Australian life insurance industry is entering a period of legislation-driven change. The past 10 years has been marked as period of restructuring and expense control...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...