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Financial planning
As part of its effort to adequately educate employers on choice of fund, the Federal Government has started the mammoth task of dishing out a print version of its officia...
Financial planning
A fear that women are being left out of the push to raise retirement incomes has prompted one state government to take action...
Financial planning
Paul Clitheroe, chair of the Financial Literacy Foundation, announced that a $16 million Federal Government grant will be used to fund a public education campaign using t...
Editorial
Should the Federal Government cut the taxes applying to superannuation? In the strongest response to any question asked in the survey, more than 97 per cent of respondent...
Financial planning
Even though they are yet to become law, the corporate regulator says it will generally accept the Federal Government’s proposed refinements to financial services legislat...
Financial planning
CPA Australia has made a number of recommendations designed to restrict statements of advice to ten pages, including production of an industry-wide booklet containing gen...
Superannuation
Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...
Financial planning
The paperwork burden of financial advisers was lightened late yesterday by the corporate watchdog, who gave advisers the OK to produce Financial Services Guides more tail...
Financial planning
The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Jeffrey Lucy, has given a strong warning to financial planners that failure to comply with choice of ...
Financial planning
The introduction of super choice will give financial planners an opportunity to demonstrate the value of insurance benefits, and hopefully increase general awareness amon...
Financial planning
A proposal by the Federal Government to strengthen identity security measures has been welcomed by the Investment and Financial Services Association as critical to the su...
Financial planning
The federal government will act on its promise to make administering super guarantee payments easier for employers next Monday by launching a new streamlined electronic p...
Financial planning
The majority of Australians remain reluctant to invest additional funds into superannuation, according to a new report on the state of savings for retirement....
Financial planning
The Opposition has slammed the final choice of fund regulations released by the Federal Government yesterday as costly, complex and unsafe....
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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...