FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Editorial

Mark Halsey takes a look at recommendation two of the PJC inquiry into financial products and services and its potential implications for the industry....

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Editorial

The Government’s broader spin machine appears to be positioning the electorate for the news (hardly surprising) that while the Henry Tax Review may be in the business of ...

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Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has repeated its call for a lifting of the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent in light of the findings of su...

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Financial planning

The IMF has upgraded its forecast for global economic growth in 2010 due to a faster than anticipated global recovery....

Editorial

Last year was a watershed year for the financial planning sector, writes Richard Klipin. He explains why 2010 promises to be a year of opportunity....

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Financial planning

The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) has welcomed proposed government reforms that would provide flexibility for directors and creditors of troubled companies to wor...

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Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned the Government it needs to ensure it does not unnecessarily disadvantage companies providing super clearin...

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Financial planning

Well-known former ANZ Bank chief economist Saul Eslake has taken up a role on the investment advisory committee of Wingate Asset Management....

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Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Federal Government to increase the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) to 12 per cent....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Actuaries has disagreed with a central thrust of the Cooper Review – the emergence of a smaller industry made up of mega-funds....

Financial planning

A new submission to the Cooper Review into superannuation has urged a prohibition of advice fees with respect to default funds....

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Editorial

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (the Ripoll Inquiry) has delivered precisely what could be expected from a parliamentary inquiry ...

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Financial planning

Small employers will run fewer risks of incurring penalties on superannuation guarantee payments by utilising the Government’s new super clearing house....

Financial planning

The Federal Government has released the final consultation paper on the draft regulations for the National Consumer Credit Protection Package....

Editorial

Alena Miles considers what lies ahead in super and retirement income streams, particularly in light of three major Government policy reviews....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 2 weeks ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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