GOVERNMENT

The techniques that pre-retirees have used in the past to amass a larger superannuation pool are no longer possible, according to Jonathan Philpot, wealth management part...

Financial planning

Anthony James and Jim Boynton explain why financial planners shouldn’t delay their FOFA implementation....

Superannuation

The Government has been taken to task over failure to deliver on details necessary to appropriately design MySuper products....

Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has released its superannuation governance policy, which enforces an independent chair and majority independent directors for trustees who ...

Financial planning

Foreign investors will be exempt from paying tax when using an Australian fund manager under the Investment Manager Regime which passed through Parliament yesterday....

Superannuation

MySuper legislation has passed through the House of Representatives, and the ISN has welcomed an amendment that will prevent members being transferred without their conse...

Financial planning

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

Financial planning

The Opposition says the Government is trying to short-circuit the Productivity Commission by establishing a formal position ahead of its findings....

Financial planning

The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia has hit back at claims made by the Australian Democrats that large numbers of borrowers were coerced into low doc home l...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that when FSC chief executive John Brogden announced the framework of new claw-back provisions around the sale of life policies, he reignited a debate ...

Superannuation

The growing number of self-managed super fund trustees being advised to enter into highly geared limited recourse borrowing arrangements in order to purchase assets for c...

Financial planning

The Government needs to release details on how grandfathering will apply to MySuper to allow super companies time to fit in with legislation, says CSSA President Douglas ...

Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has urged the Australian Taxation Office to release the final tax ruling on when a superannuation income stream commences...

Financial planning

The push to create scale through superannuation fund mergers is anti-competitive says Club Plus chief executive Paul Cahill....

Financial planning

Wingate chief investment officer questions the validity of China's growth outlook....

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