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Superannuation
Low-cost products introduced over the past 12 months by major providers such as Colonial First State, BT and AMP may have served to undermine the assumptions and disclaim...
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...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has injected enough complexity and uncertainty into its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation that it may not be possible for the industry ...
Superannuation
The Federal Opposition is maintaining pressure on Australia's two financial services regulators, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Austr...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA's) handling of superannuation funds needs to be just as transparent as its handling of the major banks, according t...
Superannuation
The Opposition is not trying to wage a war against industry superannuation funds, but the FOFA bill has to be fair across the entire industry, said Shadow Minister for Fi...
Financial planning
ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....
Superannuation
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has been accused of protecting industry superannuation funds and handing them an edge in the provision of financial advice....
Editorial
The industry superannuation funds advertising campaign reached such a level in September and early October that it prompted the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and t...
Editorial
It is now more than six years' since the industry superannuation funds launched their 'compare the pair' advertising campaign and, as Mike Taylor reports, it appears to h...
Editorial
If the Government had cared to undertake a full regulatory impact analysis of its new legislation it might have quickly concluded that, in many respects, it was turning b...
Editorial
The sole purpose test has governed the operations of Australian superannuation funds for nearly two decades but, as Mike Taylor reports, it may require some reinterpretat...
Financial planning
Asgard is pushing its new Infinity platform as being cheaper than most public offer industry superannuation funds....
Superannuation
Asgard is pushing its new Infinity platform as being cheaper than most public offer industry superannuation funds....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has questioned the legitimacy of a television advertising blitz by industry superannu...
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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’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...