GOVERNMENT AND REGULATION

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....

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Financial planning

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

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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 ...

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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...

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Financial planning

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

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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...

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Financial planning

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

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Superannuation

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

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Policy & Regulation

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

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Superannuation

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

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Superannuation

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

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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....

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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...

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Superannuation

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

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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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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

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JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 3 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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