GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION

Life/Risk

Letter from Shorten and consultation with ASIC prompts FSC to reopen moves for self-regulation around churn. ...

Superannuation

The Federal Government is updating its super calculator to reflect increases to the SG. ...

Superannuation

APRA defers key element of SuperStream data collection to second half of next year....

Policy & Regulation

Planners receiving remuneration based on clients’ gearing instalments may have to adjust pre-FOFA....

Financial planning

Praemium has announced that its separately managed account (SMA) platform has been signed up to the Government’s Significant Investor Visa (SIV) scheme....

Policy & Regulation

Govt appears unmoved by industry efforts to extract a further extension of the TASA arrangements....

Superannuation

ASFA reflects views of industry by maintaining its opposition to an industry levy to pay for AUSTRAC....

Financial planning

Charitable investment funds act like banks so they should be regulated as such, according to ASIC....

Superannuation

The Opposition dismisses as “hysterical” the reaction to its decision to extend the phase-in over the SG rise....

Superannuation

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has been criticised for flagging changing the timetable for a higher superannuation guarantee....

Superannuation

A largely unheralded technical change looks certain to impact more upper income earners on super....

The Opposition first won and then lost the passage of legislative amendments which would have forced independent directors onto industry fund boards....

Superannuation

Deloitte warns that taxing higher super balances may cost more to implement than it ever delivers....

Superannuation

The FPA is hoping for minimal change around super taxes in this evening’s Budget. ...

Financial planning

If an investor does not understand a product they should not buy it, even if their financial planner recommends it, according to ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft. ...

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