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Financial planning

Financial advisers’ high regulatory burden is the product of a system that wrongly fails to distinguish “high risk” and “low risk” advice, an adviser believes....

Financial planning

The Government has launched a review of post-retirement products with a Treasury paper acknowledging current rules are imposing limitations. ...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has rejected a senator’s claims that it deliberately kept regulators in the dark and played down the seriousness its planning groups’ actions ...

Superannuation

Superannuation members could be losing millions of dollars in insurance as their fund balance is transferred to a Government scheme which leaves “no avenue for compensati...

Financial planning

Leaked trade deal tipped to have catastrophic consequences....

Policy & Regulation

The planning industry has welcomed the Government’s FOFA changes most of which will be imposed via regulation but which include a tougher approach to conflicted remunerat...

Financial planning

Super funds have received a deadline extension to 1 July 2015 for compliance with fee and cost disclosure requirements....

Superannuation

Working mums and those residing in rural and regional areas will be hardest hit by Low Income Super Contribution scrapping....

Policy & Regulation

Cormann says Senate Committee report will influence the shape of the Government’s ultimate FOFA changes....

Superannuation

The Fair Work Commission has formally acknowledged that its default fund selection process has been suspended....

Superannuation

Superannuation funds could ease governments’ budgetary pressures by financing major infrastructure projects around the world, IFM Investors and Industry Super Australia c...

Financial planning

The Minister for Finance and acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann has cautioned against a one size fits all approach to the advice regulatory settings....

Superannuation

The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...

Superannuation

FSC argues that Government should lift the super preservation age in line with lifting the pension age....

Superannuation

The Federal Government will not introduce a new policy on superannuation in its first term in office, Treasurer, Joe Hockey claims....

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