FEDERAL OPPOSITION
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition has signalled it believes that the regulatory framework around superannuation fund mergers is inadequate, and that both members and the regulators ...
People & Products
The Federal Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has recruited an economic adviser from the Industry Super Network....
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has recruited an economic adviser from the Industry Super Network....
Financial planning
Shorten urged to address excess contributions issue amid news that 65,000 were caught last financial year....
Editorial
The Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, faces the prospect of some serious horse-trading in both houses of Parliament to get the financial advice 'opt in' legislation pass...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition has declared it will be opposing a compulsory lifting of the superannuation guarantee....
Policy & Regulation
Government urged to deliver on promise of Tax Summit in 2011....
Financial planning
Opposition reacts to Government’s response to Cooper by alleging protection of union and industry fund interests....
Financial planning
Government embraces majority of Cooper recommendations as policy but faces testing time gaining Parliamentary endorsement....
Editorial
As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...
Financial planning
Questions have been asked about why the Australian Law Reform Commission didn’t have carriage of the Future of Financial Advice reforms....
Editorial
The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has outlined some of the Government's policy agenda, including a commitment to MySuper but, as ...
Financial planning
Curbing the banks’ ability to comment on their funding costs and interest rate intentions would result in a one-sided public debate, the Australian Bankers’ A...
Superannuation
The Government embraced a modified MySuper as a central element of its election policy but, as Mike Taylor reports, there remain plenty of reasons why the concept should ...
Financial planning
Both the Government and elements of the industry are demanding the Government produce a comprehensive policy on superannuation....
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