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Financial planning

The financial services sector has broadly welcomed today’s release by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) of a modelling template for fee disclosur...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has delivered a mixed response to the Federal Budget, with one association lambasting the Government for “walking away” from Australia’s r...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has confirmed an exclusive report from Money Management over a week ago that the SuperEC and MFundEC electroni...

Financial planning

70 per cent of Australian workers will receive a positive return on their superannuation funds for the 2002/03 financial year according to the Association of Superannuati...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia will make a series of recommendations to industry regulators and the Federal Government on a standard level of disclo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have called for a greater industry effort to b...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has done an about face, welcoming Senator Helen Coonan’s reassurance of the Federal Government’s commitment to...

Financial planning

Australia’s peak industry body for the superannuation industry, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has warned the Government that any increased ...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has claimed the superannuation surcharge is now affecting 10 per cent of the workforce each year....

Financial planning

Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....

Policy & Regulation

Two of the financial services industry’s most influential lobby groups have joined forces to call on the Government to cut taxes on superannuation contributions in order ...

Financial planning

The industry has come out in support of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recommendation that regulations surrounding the use of past performance...

Funds management

A standardised definition for all fees, and their disclosure and purpose listed in one table in the product disclosure statement (PDS) of managed investment products were...

Superannuation

Most financial planners could be excused for thinking that things have gone a little quiet in the world of superannuation....

Superannuation

The women’s rights movement has led to a raft of change an helped create the equally balanced society we live in today. But when it comes to superannuation, women continu...

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