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Australia’s major industry associations have welcomed the Government’s push to give regulators sweeping new powers to police the $520 billion superannuation industry with...
Financial planning
Most Australians are not ready for choice of superannuation fund despite the Government’s most recent attempt to put the policy firmly back on the agenda, a survey conduc...
Financial planning
The Austrailan Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has replaced the trustee of a small superannuation fund based in Victoria after discovering the fund directors were ...
Financial planning
THE main opposition groups to the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) crackdown on mass marketed tax effective schemes have combined to form a peak industry body in order ...
Financial planning
Small superannuation funds that lost money as a result of the collapse of the Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNA) trustee group will have up to 90 per cent of the loss...
Financial planning
The Government has put its choice of superannuation fund policy firmly back on the political agenda with an election night commitment to fund a consumer education campaig...
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Managed Investments Association (AMIA) is calling on investors caught up in the controversy over mass marketed tax schemes to consider rejecting the Austra...
Financial planning
The Prime Minister, John Howard, has decided to scrap the financial services and regulation portfolio from his new government in a reshuffle of his front bench ministry a...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expressed disappointment at the rejection of the Choice of Fund Bill in the Senate on Wednesday....
Financial planning
The long heralded choice of funds in superannuation is close to being signed off by the Democrats and Government, according to the assistant treasurer Rod Kemp....
Financial planning
Improving the image of financial planners in the eyes of Australian consumers will be the cornerstone to Ken Breakspear’s strategy for the Financial Planning Association....
Financial planning
The long heralded choice of funds in superannuation is close to being signed off by the Demo-crats and Government, according to the assistant treasurer Rod Kemp....
Financial planning
The long heralded choice of funds in superannuation is close to being signed off by the Democ-rats and Government according to the assistant treasurer Rod Kemp....
Financial planning
It’s like a ticking time bomb sitting beneath the financial planning industry. Tax legislation aimed at snaring IT and construction contractors has unintentionally caught...
Superannuation
The Federal Government has moved to amend legislation which could have frozen some investment earnings on income streams for retirees. The move by the Government follows ...
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