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Former employees of Investment Data Technologies are yet to receive their entitlements despite the financial planning software provider entering voluntary administration ...

Policy & Regulation

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has defended a decision by the Australian Taxation Office last week to end existing up-front tax deductions for investments in non-timbe...

Editorial

Accountancy-based wealth management group, Count Financial has recorded a strong half-yearly result recording a 21 per cent lift in revenues to $58.64 million driving an ...

Financial planning

The Assistant Treasurer, Peter Dutton, has outlined further tax-related transitional arrangements covering people aged 64 and 74 affected by the Government’s simplifying ...

Financial planning

The Federal Government will stop tax breaks on non-forestry managed investment schemes from July 1 this year....

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The Association of Financial Advisers is to campaign for a 15 per cent Super Guarantee from the Federal Government, as part of its strategic plan for 2007....

Financial planning

Despite ongoing increases in government staffing numbers across various sectors, including finance, the public is not seeing any increase in the level of service it recei...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has given its approval for the proposed acquisition of the Promina Group by Suncorp Metway to proceed....

Financial planning

Financial planners and property investors will need to pay closer attention to the Federal Government’s Capital Gains Tax regime, with an Australian National Audit Office...

Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has released revised exposure draft legislation, which outlines the final stages of reforms for the tax treatment of financial arrangements....

Editorial

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Court enforceable undertakings, the regulators’ disqualification regime and co-operation between APRA and professional industry bodies are among the enforcement and other...

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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 ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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