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Editorial

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

Financial planning

While the proposed Future of Financial Advice changes and their potential impact on financial advisers remain the hot topic, there is another acronym - TOFA - which deser...

Financial planning

Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has signalled the Government may moderate its approach to annual fee disclosure statements....

Financial planning

Major platform providers across the industry are now moving away from a heavy period of platform consolidation to focus on developing and upgrading the remaining products...

Financial planning

Chinese demand will be the key factor influencing the price of resource stocks both in Australia and overseas, regardless of whether specific countries trade with China d...

Superannuation

Accountants handling SMSFs will be able to cover off licensing via arrangement with MLC and AXA....

Superannuation

Shadow Minister for Superannuation Mathias Cormann has reaffirmed that the Coalition will not repeal the increase in the superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 to 12 per ce...

Financial planning

With Challenger Limited naming Brian Benari as chief executive officer designate, incumbent CEO Dominic Stevens said it's business as usual at the investment manager....

Financial planning

With both tranches of the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation now released, participants in a Money Management roundtable discuss the good, the bad and the ugly ...

Editorial

Much attention has been directed towards the manner in which a Parliamentary Joint Committee will handle the Government's Future of Financial Advice legislation but, as M...

Editorial

The financial planning industry has been undertaking some intense lobbying in recent weeks in the hope of extracting some key amendments to the Government’s Future of Fin...

Superannuation

The CSSA is concerned that proposed intra-fund financial advice measures could lead to personal advice fees being bundled in with fund administration fees....

Funds management

A New York roundtable has revealed plenty of support for Australia capturing the benefits of the commodities boom by establishing a sovereign wealth fund...

Superannuation

A roundtable of industry experts has suggested the Government's Stronger Super changes have been weakened by the absence of an answer on concessional contributions....

Superannuation

SPAA welcomes Shorten's superannuation guarantee changes, but wants action on contribution caps....

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