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Financial planning
Suncorp confirms Vero is applying a ‘selective’ approach to approving directors and officers insurance to planning groups....
Financial planning
The introduction of the Significant Investor visa gives advisers the opportunity to provide compliance and investment advice to business immigrants, as Macquarie Adviser ...
Policy & Regulation
Treasury officials point to looming announcement on grandfathering rules – but claim original design was too “liberal”....
Superannuation
Banks are receiving numerous calls from customers anxious about the Government’s proposed changes to superannuation....
Superannuation
The debate about the selection of default funds in modern awards is most likely a "storm in a teacup", according to Independent Education Union general secretary John Que...
Superannuation
ASFA’s pre-Budget submission questions underlying Treasury assumptions being used to justify altering super taxes....
Financial planning
Should ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ be synonymous in the eyes of law?...
Editorial
It is to be hoped that the Minister for Financial Services, Bill Shorten, has noted the capacity of the financial planning industry to do good and to rally to the needs o...
Superannuation
Sir Anthony Mason critical of Government speculation on super tax changes....
Superannuation
Coalition meets with senior industry figures and extends its commitments on super policy. ...
Editorial
ASIC's guidance on FOFA's fee disclosure requirements prompted an almost audible sigh of relief from the financial planning industry....
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council (FSC) will not go ahead with its application to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to have its insurance churning policy ap...
Financial planning
AFA canvasses concept that two-tiered code of conduct with ethics and providing good advice is more important than obviating opt-in....
Superannuation
The FPA, in its Treasury submission, has said the Government needs to immediately increase the super contributions cap and implement a longer-term financial plan....
Superannuation
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten commits to delivering higher SG despite lower MRRT....
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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’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...