West Australian Liberal Senator, Mathias Cormann is to retire from politics later this year, meaning the financial services industry will lose a minister with a deep unde...

The “jury is out” over how successful the investment impact of the Federal Government’s stimulus package will be to the economy, according to VanEck....

A poll commissioned by the Transport Workers Union has canvassed the possibility of the Federal Government taking a stake in Qantas on the basis of any bail-out of the ai...

The Government will allow financially-stressed individuals to access tax-free of up to $10,000 of their superannuation in 2019-20 and a further $10,000 in 2020-21....

The Government should accept that if a client has signed a renewal notice with their financial adviser, that is more than enough proof of the client’s intentions, accordi...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has avoided declaring a targeted success rate for its ‘if not, why not’ approach to litigation and has foreshadowed t...

The Institute of Public Accountants has put its support behind the Government’s reintroduction of the superannuation guarantee amnesty bill....

The wealth management strategy recently announced by AMP is a return to the dark ages, according to Synchron’s chair, Michael Harrison....

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that a significant unintended consequence of the Government’s changes to insurance inside superannuation will be an incre...

Serious questions have been raised about whether the Government even understood the existence of hundreds of thousands of ‘risk-only’ superannuation fund members when it ...

The Scheme for Detriment caused by Defective Administration is being reviewed by the government and the IPA says it needs to be fixed to better help accountants and tax p...

The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has reiterated her call for an end to the culture wars ...

Continuing Canberra’s moves against corporate misconduct and crime, Parliament yesterday passed legislation strengthening corporate and tax whistleblower protections....

The Federal Government has committed to a timetable to ending grandfathering and to entertaining life/risk commissions being further reduced....