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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....

Funds management

Centuria Property Funds has seen a pickup in enquiries from financial planners over the past four months as an increase in volatility sends investors back to unlisted pro...

Financial planning

An equity release industry body has praised the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten's consultative approach before introducing changes to...

Superannuation

SMSF specialists regard the proposed ban on off-market transfers as a bad element of Stronger Super....

Policy & Regulation

While the majority of self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) professionals believe the proposed Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will improve the standard of fi...

Financial planning

Choice’s view that the quality of financial advice in Australia is "among the worst" is not the fault of financial planners but the industry as a whole, according to Omni...

Superannuation

The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....

People & Products

Suncorp Life has appointed Sean Carroll as its new executive general manager for life risk in Australia - he will move from the same position he held in New Zealand....

Superannuation

A significant proportion of industry fund members would be interested in further advice about their superannuation, even though less than one in five members surveyed cur...

Financial planning

Former Trio director Keith Finkelde has entered into an enforceable undertaking with APRA that will see him barred from acting as the trustee of an APRA-regulated super e...

Financial planning

The gap between the Newstart allowance and the age pension is rapidly increasing, placing Australians who are at the bottom of the ladder in serious financial stress, acc...

People & Products

Hastings Funds Management appoints former Sensis boss, Andrew Day, as new CEO....

Superannuation

If the accountant's exemption is removed when the second tranche of draft Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation is released shortly, it will have positive implica...

Financial planning

Within days of the Government's expected release of its Stronger Super proposals it has been warned it risks creating an industry fund monopoly....

Superannuation

First State Super has denied reports death and disability insurance arrangements were inappropriate or uncompetitive....

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