GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION

Superannuation

<b>Updated:</b> Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann has questioned Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten's claim to be abolishing the superannuation guarantee age limit...

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Financial planning

A group of institutional managers have formed a new body aimed at arguing against the direction of current investment theory and regulation....

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Editorial

Investor sentiment is still low and financial advisers are blamed for losses. Advisers will face a difficult period in the next 12 months, but will be presented with a ra...

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Editorial

Some tough questions have been asked about the Industry Super Network's (ISN's) long-running television advertising in recent weeks - a number of times in the Federal Par...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Trio Capital Limited director David O'Bryen....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed a number of interim orders against Equititrust Limited restraining the operations of two of its man...

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Financial planning

Government intervention and intrusive regulation is a major cause of concern for the heads of global companies, whose reluctance to spend is slowing the global recovery....

Financial planning

Sequential Project Services has announced that its new targeted review product is now being used by AMP Financial Planners Association (AFPA), Hillross Advisers Associati...

Policy & Regulation

The proposed changes to transfer pricing rules will ensure multinational corporations operating in Australia pay the correct amount of tax on their income, according to A...

Policy & Regulation

Financial planners have renewed their lobbying efforts on FOFA - but the key independents are playing their cards very close to the chests....

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Life/Risk

General insurance providers will now be able to send their product disclosure statements (PDSs) to retail clients after the quote is given, following the class order reli...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Trood Pratt & Co auditor Peter Lockyer....

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Financial planning

Earlier this year, ASIC promised to direct most of its efforts to scrutinising areas such as advice related to structured products. Janine Mace examines the implications ...

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Editorial

Something became very clear when Money Management recently conducted a roundtable focusing on the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation tabled in the Parliament e...

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Editorial

In providing an update on Greece, Matthew Sherwood writes that modern day Greece is hardly something that Alexander the Great would have envisaged. The country stands on ...

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