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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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