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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has raised concerns about Treasury's admission that its failure to conduct a regulatory impact analysis on the Future of Financia...

Editorial

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

Financial planning

The Industry Funds Forum (IFF) and Cuscal have moved to expand their IFF eRollover Hub to include Russell Investments as the first non-industry superannuation fund to joi...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has injected enough complexity and uncertainty into its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation that it may not be possible for the industry ...

Superannuation

SPAA welcomes Shorten's superannuation guarantee changes, but wants action on contribution caps....

Superannuation

Key industry figures have warned the Government's linking of the superannuation guarantee to a tax represents a possibly fatal flaw....

Superannuation

Investing is often described as part science and part art, according to Robin Bowerman....

Editorial

While many in the financial planning industry support the broad, original thrust of the Future of Financial Advice changes, Mike Taylor writes that the manner of their in...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Planning Association has accused the Federal Government of making further amendments to the draft Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation without cond...

Superannuation

StatewideSuper and Local Super have announced the commencement of due diligence ahead of a potential merger between the two superannuation funds....

Editorial

If the Government had cared to undertake a full regulatory impact analysis of its new legislation it might have quickly concluded that, in many respects, it was turning b...

Policy & Regulation

IOOF warns FOFA changes may have unintended consequence of placing pressure on age pension....

Superannuation

The Government's Stronger Super package imposes opt-out arrangements on consolidation of multiple superannuation accounts....

Superannuation

With the Government expected to release its Stronger Super formula, it has been urged to thereafter stop tinkering with super policy....

Superannuation

The Government has used Medicare and the ATO to begin promoting its Small Business Superannuation Clearing House....

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