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Financial planning

The Government has ensured financial planners will have a voice at its latest superannuation roundtable....

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Financial planning

New Financial Services Council (FSC) research reveals the current financial downturn is contributing to age discrimination which, in turn, is undermining retirement incom...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has warned the PJC that FOFA will fail in its core objective - making financial advice more affordable....

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Superannuation

The Federal Opposition says the Productivity Commission's review of default funds under modern awards need not take all year and that the MySuper legislation should be am...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has urged an appropriate transition for FOFA, warning that compliance costs will run into the millions....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has urged explicit rules around the disclosure of superannuation fund executive remuneration....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has urged explicit rules around the disclosure of superannuation fund executive remuneration....

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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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Financial planning

Concern for the global investment market has deepened over the past year, as European sovereign debt and slow growth in China continues to drive market volatility, accord...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council (FSC) warns FOFA tranche may restrict the ability of financial services companies to provide scalable financial advice....

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People & Products

Vanguard Australia founder Jeremy Duffield has been appointed a non-executive director of the MLC board....

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Superannuation

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has restated his party's opposition to an increase in the superannuation guarantee but said it would not rescind an increase if it was passe...

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Financial planning

Financial planning executive Neil Younger will make a move to ANZ Wealth next month to head up practice-based financial planning, the banking group has announced....

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Financial planning

The Government must remove a number of structural, regulatory and political issues that must be resolved before the $1.3 trillion in superannuation saving can be utilised...

Funds management

New FSC/Plan for Life research confirms Australia's standing as a regional funds management hub....

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