FINANCIAL PLANNING INDUSTRY

Financial planning

ASIC has released highly preliminary figures from its financial planning shadow shop exercise at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) hearing, having given only 24 hou...

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Financial planning

ASIC has released highly preliminary figures from its financial planning shadow shop exercise at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) hearing, having given only 24 hou...

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Policy & Regulation

The underlying legality of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) changes will almost certainly be tested in the event the legislation passes the Parliament w...

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Financial planning

The FOFA reforms well and truly dominated the financial planning industry during 2011 and the year ahead looks set to bring more of the same, writes Nicolette Rubinsztein...

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Editorial

If the parliamentarians involved in the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills put aside their political affiliations then they will back some key amendme...

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Financial planning

While industry bodies support the Government's proposed regulatory amendments to accelerate the wind-up of so-called 'phoenix' companies and claim the issue is not a majo...

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Superannuation

The passing of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) has paved the way for an increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG)....

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Financial planning

ASIC has used its submission to the PJC to point to the difficulty of dealing with miscreant financial planners who appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ma...

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Editorial

The linking of Workplace Relations and Financial Services reflects factional clout rather than good governance....

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Financial planning

Securitor, one of BT Financial Group's major dealer groups with 450 advisers, has joined the Association of Financial Advisers....

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Superannuation

While Industry Super Network has made considerable gains against the financial planning industry in its campaign against commissions there remains increasing concerns abo...

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Financial planning

If Industry Super Network has ended 2011 as the industry's big winner, it came at the expense of the financial planning industry....

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Policy & Regulation

Australia's three major accounting bodies have backed the two-year opt-in arrangements contained in the Government's Future of Financial Advice arrangements, describing t...

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Financial planning

Changes to the delivery of intra-fund financial advice preclude recommendations to consolidate superannuation accounts or move from one fund to another, but still fall sh...

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Editorial

The political clock is ticking and, as Mike Taylor writes, global economic reality may overtake the Government’s policy agenda before it can deliver proof of a Budget sur...

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