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Financial planning

The FPA has been foremost in welcoming the Coalition’s breakthrough on the TASA legislation delivering planners a further 12 months’ exemption. ...

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Financial planning

ASFA's Pauline Vamos argues the increasing complexity involved in dealing with post-retirement issues justifies a specialist qualification for planners. ...

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Superannuation

Challenger has predicted that it will become the highest-selling lifetime annuity provider in the industry as well as selling more lifetime annuities in 2013 than the ent...

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Editorial

The Federal Government and ASIC insist that life/risk churn is real and that it is a serious issue. There exist many advisers in the life/risk space who believe ASIC and ...

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....

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Funds management

Platform provider OneVue has made key appointments across its institutional, self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) and marketing divisions in the lead-up to bringing ne...

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Financial planning

The move by governments and corporates to exit the pension business, combined with the first waves of baby boomers reaching retirement, has shifted a higher level of risk...

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Financial planning

The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....

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Financial planning

The majority report of the PJC clears the way for TASA legislation with the only concession being a transition period....

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Financial planning

Praemium has entered the cloud-based sphere with a new customer relationship management solution for financial advisers....

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Financial planning

FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....

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Superannuation

The Board of the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has returned its founder and chief executive Andrea Slattery to the body for the second time citing g...

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Superannuation

Following SuperRatings criticism of the FSC/ASFA standard risk measure yesterday, ASFA has said it will incorporate the points made in a review of the SRM later this year...

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Financial planning

FSC places $1 billion price tag on TASA implementation as PJC weighs competing submissions from accounting and planning industries....

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Financial planning

The mortgage and finance broking industry is facing a shortage of young people entering the profession, due largely to a lack of understanding about how to get started as...

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