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Superannuation

Representatives of some financial planning industry bodies have expressed anger over the lack of planner representation on the newly formed Stronger Super Peak Consultati...

Superannuation

AIST budget submission calls for threshold removal

A budget submission from the AIST focuses on changes that will ensure all types of income include a superannuation component....

Editorial

There's more to financial services reform than FOFA

Rather that focusing exclusively on the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Government needs to clear up all the outstanding policy issues in financial services, writ...

Editorial

Protecting investors from themselves

When even municipal councils were subjected to multi-million dollar losses through the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor writes that the Government has few options oth...

Financial planning

Planners look to high-net-worth segment

Many financial planners are progressively making changes to their business models as they shift towards the high-net-worth (HNW) client segment, according to Investment T...

Superannuation

SPAA supports SMSF draft on art and collectibles

The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association (SPAA) has welcomed the Government’s draft legislation, which allows self-managed super funds (SMSFs) t...

Financial planning

Investor sentiment up, but still negative

Investor sentiment slightly improved in the last quarter of 2010 but is still lingering in negative territory....

Editorial

FOFA carries a high price for financial planners

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA may separate industry: Klipin

One of the unintended consequences of the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms may be a shortage of 'generalist' financial planners, according to ...

Financial planning

NGO calls for more banking options for low-income families

The banks should be doing more to cater for low income earners as less than 30 per cent have switched to the low or no-fee transaction accounts that are on offer, accordi...

Editorial

Why FOFA alone cannot change the culture of financial planning

The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...

Editorial

Financial services reform: the road ahead

As the Government implements its financial services reforms throughout 2011 and beyond, it can either choose to do things the 'hard way'; or the ';easy way', writes Mike ...

Editorial

Term deposits: taking the wheel

Stephen Hart takes a look at the term deposit market and asks: what's next for the sector?...

Financial planning

Reform revolution an opportunity to improve trust

The current reform revolution is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get it right and improve trust in the industry, but several proposed changes risk taking the reform...

Policy & Regulation

FOFA takes shape amid industry concern

The key lobby groups making up the financial services industry are hoping to see the first draft of the legislation emanating from the Government’s Future of Financ...