JANE HUME
Financial planning
The cost of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority functions may yet add to the ASIC levy paid by financial advisers....
SMSF
The Government may have upset APRA-regulated funds via its Your Future, Your Super legislation but it is backing the growth in self-managed funds....
Superannuation
The Government is continuing to hedge its bets on delivering the scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee to 10%. ...
Financial planning
Financial advice firms already digesting the scale of their Australian Securities and Investments Commission levy invoices are worried about what a compensation scheme of...
Features
There was support for increased standards in the financial advice industry, Chris Dastoor writes, but any goodwill was destroyed by FASEA in just a few years. Where did i...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has prosecuted many people for operating without an Australian Financial Services License but it appears no one has b...
Outsider
Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...
Superannuation
While much attention was focused on other elements of its Your Future Your Super legislation, the Government has moved at the same time to impose key obligations with res...
Superannuation
Senator Jane Hume says her greatest frustration is the disconnect between what she is being told by superannuation funds and what she is being told by industry bodies....
Outsider
It is not often that Outsider feels a sense of surprise. But the usually unfazed Outsider was left feeling shocked when he attended what must have been one of the first i...
Superannuation
Jane Hume has said the legislated superannuation guarantee rise had put the government in an “awkward” position as it was trying to lower costs to businesses. ...
Financial planning
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may be gone but its exam timetable will continue and so will the requirement for financial advisers to become degree ...
Financial planning
Mike Taylor writes that few people genuinely argued with the objectives set out for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority but they did argue with the autho...
Financial planning
The Government has scrapped the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority with its standards making functions rolled into Treasury while remaining elements are han...
Superannuation
The Federal Government has signalled it will not be relenting on making superannuation funds perform and be more transparent for members....
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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...