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Financial planning
Australian Liberal Party Senator John Watson has criticised the financial planning industry, labelling it one of the significant weaknesses in Australia’s superannuation ...
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia will make a series of recommendations to industry regulators and the Federal Government on a standard level of disclo...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) have called for a greater industry effort to b...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has backed the Federal Government's decision to reintroduce its superannuation surcharge and co-contribution refo...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been lambasted by a high profile banking and finance professor with claims it often deliberately fails to ...
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has done an about face, welcoming Senator Helen Coonan’s reassurance of the Federal Government’s commitment to...
Superannuation
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) today called on the Federal Government to link the age at which consumers can access lump sum superannuation to eligibility for t...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) yesterday welcomed the Federal Government’s renewed commitment of introducing its superannuation choice and portability policies....
Editorial
The promise of positive returns in an otherwise dour investment climate could help advisers overcome their fear of agribusiness schemes. John Wilkinson reports....
Financial planning
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has claimed the superannuation surcharge is now affecting 10 per cent of the workforce each year....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will consider backing a proposal to set up a national scheme, possibly funded by an industry levy, to compensate investors for lo...
Superannuation
When the Federal Government announced that from July 1, 2001, superannuation assets were to be exempted from the social security income and assets tests from age 55 until...
Financial planning
Less than half of all employers expect to offer their employees a choice of superannuation funds in the next one or two years, a new survey has found....
Life/Risk
The Federal Government will be pushing to include professional indemnity cover in any legislation the states make on public liability insurance....
Financial planning
The current environment does not encourage advisers to charge fees for service, argues PETER BOBBIN. But all that might change if the law was amended to allow clients to ...
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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’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...