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The financial planning industry organisation has welcomed a signal from the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, that the Federal Govern...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has been taken to task for causing consumer uncertainty by taking an undue amount of time to deliver a new legislative framework covering the finan...
Financial planning
Mandatory flood cover will not solve the problem of repeated flooding to at-risk areas, the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has warned....
Financial planning
As the financial services sector braces for major change flagged by the Federal Government more than a year ago, companies within the industry are becoming increasingly v...
Financial planning
There seems to be a sizeable gap between boutique dealer groups and major institutions in terms of financial planner recruitment this year, as the two sectors face differ...
Policy & Regulation
Federal Government moves to ban risk commissions have been labelled 'poor policy' amid entrenched financial planner opposition to the FOFA reforms. This and more in the l...
Policy & Regulation
The Institute of Public Accountants has called for clarity on how carbon tax will impact small and medium businesses....
Financial planning
The Government has released a legislative draft covering charities giving ATO greater powers....
Policy & Regulation
The Association of Financial Advisers has demanded the Government explain the actual benefits of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) proposals....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has produced a discussion paper detailing its savings incentives....
Financial planning
The Treasury has declined to say whether banning commissions on life/risk products in super will end up making such products more expensive....
Financial planning
The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has called on the Federal Government to extend legal privilege to tax advice provided by professional tax advisers....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has handed Medicare responsibility for administering compassionate early release superannuation....
Editorial
Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...
Financial planning
The Government has been urged to improve default fund arrangements, as more negative reports emerge about MTAA Super....
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...