FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Policy & Regulation
Changes to the income tax treatment of the investment income of foreign funds will provide tax certainty for foreign investors investing in Australian managed funds, acco...
Financial planning
The Government will extend the 'look through' arrangements to ensure there is no CGT applicable on instalment warrants....
Life/Risk
The Government, banks, insurers and the ATO have acted to lighten the load on flood victims....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has moved to simplify the GST arrangements regarding taxes, fees and charges....
Policy & Regulation
Government urged to deliver on promise of Tax Summit in 2011....
Financial planning
Government embraces majority of Cooper recommendations as policy but faces testing time gaining Parliamentary endorsement....
Policy & Regulation
The lift in financial advice standards proposed by the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough, according to Glob...
Superannuation
The Government will act to make the directors of failed companies liable for the non-payment of superannuation guarantee contributions....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has revealed its 16-member advisory panel for financial advice and professional standards....
Superannuation
New Financial Services Council research has revealed the degree to which Australia’s retirement savings gap has widened....
Superannuation
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten has effectively moved the debate about the SG increase away from the implementation of a super profits resource rent tax and into...
People & Products
Vanguard Investments Australia’s chairman and managing founder, Jeremy Duffield, will retire at the end of the year....
Financial planning
Challenger’s Howard Mortgage Fund has become the first mortgage trust to resume commercial lending....
Superannuation
Shorten has issued an assurance that the shape of MySuper is not a fait accompli....
Financial planning
Speculation has emerged about the Federal Government’s regulation of product design within the reverse mortgage sector....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...