FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Superannuation

The Albanese government has confirmed superannuation will be paid on the Commonwealth paid parental leave scheme from next year, addressing a longstanding “gender blind s...

Financial planning

Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

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Financial planning

The Customer Owned Banking Association and Master Builders Australia have both welcomed proposed credit reforms from the Federal Government to allow easier access to cred...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has announced it will extend the $150,000 instant asset write-off to 31 December, 2020 ....

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Superannuation

The Government has deferred the introduction of a Retirement Income Covenant raising concerns that it is building towards far-reaching changes to the superannuation via i...

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Financial planning

A lawyers group is urging the Federal Government to speed up the implementation of a Compensation Scheme of Last Resort arguing that past bad advice is only now coming ho...

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Financial planning

Managers have praised the Reserve Bank of Australia’s efforts but warned the central bank can ‘only do so much’ to stop the tide of the worldwide economic chaos caused by...

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Funds management

Australia will receive a large $17.6 billion direct stimulus package, which will include a $2.4 billion health package and hospital funding to the states and territories...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government is being confronted by an increasingly united front on the need to retain the deductibility of advice fees from MySuper products....

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Policy & Regulation

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has stopped short of restating the Government’s promise to increase the superannuation guarantee, preferring to say that it has no ...

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Policy & Regulation

Attracting talent to superannuation funds could become problematic under the Government’s move to extend the Bank Executive Accountability Regime to the superannuation in...

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Financial planning

All participants in the financial services industry should bear the burden of funding a compensation scheme of last resort but any levy should be capped at 0.5% of revenu...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be imposing a climate change stress test on banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

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Policy & Regulation

Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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