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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...
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council (FSC) warns FOFA tranche may restrict the ability of financial services companies to provide scalable financial advice....
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...
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....
Editorial
The Government has finally delivered the details of its Stronger Super package but, as Mike Taylor writes, those hoping for certainty may be waiting a very long time....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council has dismissed ISN research disparaging retail superannuation funds as flawed and misleading....
Financial planning
Patron Financial Advice has opposed a Financial Services Council proposal to introduce a binding standard for insurance business, saying it would restrict consumer choice...
Superannuation
The Government’s Stronger Super package has generated a mixed response from the industry....
Financial planning
The term 'churning', which is being used to describe a legitimate practice, defames advisers while it whitewashes the role of life companies, according to Synchron direct...
Financial planning
Government claims opt-in would cost around $11 per financial planning client is at best questionable and, at worst, entirely misleading, writes Mike Taylor....
Editorial
Financial planners have finally been given the details of the Government's FOFA reforms. In an editorial written prior to the release of the reform package Mike Taylor wa...
Financial planning
The integrity of consumer group Choice over its potentially conflicted partnership with One Big Switch has been questioned yet again, with Financial Services Council chie...
Editorial
Assistant Treasurer, Bill Shorten, has pointedly excluded the Association of Financial Advisers from those who convinced the Government to concede ground on risk commissi...
Policy & Regulation
Australia's taxation of foreign managed funds will soon be aligned with countries including the US, the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore, as the Federal Government rolls out i...
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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...