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Financial planning
VicSuper has become the first superannuation provider to adopt a dollar based disclosure model and has also upped the competitive ante by declaring a new cap on fees char...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association has backed a Labor party bid to step up the pressure on advisers over soft dollar commissions with a strict regulatory crackdown....
Financial planning
Mortgage brokers are the latest target in the soft dollar disclosure crusade with the Mortgage Industry Association of Australia (MIAA) unveiling a new code requiring bro...
Financial planning
Yesterday’s deal between the Federal Government and the Democrats, that will see the Government’s stalled choice of super plans passed in the senate, will not aid the con...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has turned up the heat on the Labor party to outline how it will pay for $1.4 billion worth of planned superannuation tax cuts, as retirement savin...
Financial planning
Switzerland-based insurance company Zurich Financial Services has nearly doubled its net income for the first half of 2004 pinning the rise on higher premium income, lowe...
Financial planning
AMP has announced $40 million worth of fee cuts to its key superannuation and retirement income products ahead of the new choice of superannuation environment....
Financial planning
Faster, higher, stronger could easily be the motto of the Bridges group, as it strives to continually add more value for its planners and clients. Freya Purnell reports....
Financial planning
Just when you think you understand how to comply with the terms of your Australian Financial Services Licence, Batch 8 dollar disclosure arrives, writes Paula Zammit....
Superannuation
Nick Bruining takes a serious look at the impact of choice of fund legislation on the asset management and self-managed super arena....
Accounting
Accountants have warmly welcomed the recommendation by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (PJCCFS) to allow them to provide advice o...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released details of the new dollar disclosure obligations that product issuers will face as of January 1, 2005, a...
Financial planning
Australian asset management firms have won a temporary reprieve from the requirement of having to disclose the level of remuneration paid to their directors and executive...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is satisfied Australian fund managers are not breaching the Corporations Act through late trading or market timing, d...
Financial planning
The Australian Conservation Foundation has lashed out at the funds management industry for failing to comply with ethical investment disclosure obligations imposed by the...
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