The Government has been told by two veteran fund managers it needs to look beyond the use of monetary policy if it wants to appropriately stimulate the Australian economy...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revealed the degree to which grandfathering will come to an end without the Government having been fully apprised...

The SMSF Association has appointed Robin Bowerman as its new chair, replacing Dr Deborah Ralston who has joined the Review of the Retirement Income System....

A significant question mark will hang over the Government’s Retirement Income Review if all it seeks to achieve is abandonment of the superannuation guarantee timetable a...

Mike Taylor writes that in the half-decade of discussion around retirement incomes policy there has been plenty of talk, multiple proposals but very little real progress....

Industry superannuation funds have reinforced the fact that lifting the Superannuation Guarantee to 12% has already been legislated amid suggestions that the Government’s...

It appears that the Government moved to end grandfathering from the beginning of 2021 without knowing the precise dimensions of the issue and without taking into consider...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....

Platform providers and those engaged in managed accounts will need to be alert to new regulations which extend the sweep of the Design and Distribution Obligations regime...

The Federal Government has tabled exposure draft legislation which would give the Australian Securities and Investments Commission phone tapping and search warrant powers...

Advisers have been urged to be mindful of the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg’s move to impose 12-monthly opt-in and fee disclosure arrangements....

Financial advisers have been provided with an advocacy pack aimed at convincing politicians to slow-down the rate of change being imposed on the financial planning indust...

Financial planning organisations are seeking clarity from the Government on how its proposed new central disciplinary body for financial advisers will work and how much i...

The financial advice industry is facing yet another layer of bureaucracy as a result of the Government’s so-called Royal Commission Implementation Roadmap but the ultimat...