Bank-owned retail super funds were disguising sales techniques as choice when it came to super to bamboozle customers but choice did not equate to robust performance, ISA...

Housing affordability has serious implications for metro-based retirees, according to Milliman’s report....

How super funds honour deemed earnings is one of the key questions surrounding the first home super saver scheme, according to HLB Mann Judd Sydney....

Linking housing with superannuation is a powerful mechanism to encourage millennials to engage with their super and planners should now engage with millennial clients....

The Government’s 2017 Budget changes to financial services may have been modest but Mike Taylor writes that they will come at considerable cost....

It would be disastrous if the First Home Super Savers Scheme led to allowing other withdrawals from super, according to the Federal Opposition....

The major banks are facing a bipartisan pincer on the proposed bank levy with Federal Opposition leader, Bill Shorten backing such a move while continuing his calls for a...

The Budget has proposed to only allow new plant and equipment assets and items added to an investment property to be depreciated....

The Australian Bankers Association has accused the Government of policy on the run and of abrogating normal legislative processes....

The major banks still don’t know precisely how the Government’s new bank levy will work but most are claiming it will be shareholders and customers who ultimately pay....

The Government has left the door open to consider a more comprehensive approach in allowing seniors to use the equity in their homes, Homesafe Solutions believes....

Significant policy changes laid out in the 2017 Federal Budget which affect Australia’s fintech sector have been met with approval by the industry body. ...

Bank executives are unhappy and the Financial Services Council wants substantial consultation around the new Banking Executive Accountability Regime....

The Budget measure allowing people aged over 65 to downsize their home and contribute an extra $300,000 to super has provided scope for new planning strategies....