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Funds management
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned inflation in Australia “will be worse before it gets better”....
Policy & Regulation
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has most likely lost his seat in this year’s Federal election while Liberals Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson, chair and former chair of the House ...
Financial planning
Shadow minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, has assured the financial services community that Labor’s proposed ‘experience pathway’ will still be implemented i...
Financial planning
Access to high-quality advice for consumers will be a key priority for the Labor government, according to shadow minister for financial services, Stephen Jones. ...
Superannuation
Labor would not make any “wholesale changes” to Your Future, Your Super reforms but has instead committed to tweaking aspects of it in response to emergent challenges tha...
Funds management
Australia is well placed to benefit of the decarbonisation thematic despite alternate pathways and pace of emission cuts proposed by the Coalition and Australian Labor Pa...
Superannuation
Shadow assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones, says he agrees with superannuation performance testing but that he will review the Your Future, Your Super benchmarking metrics...
Financial planning
If elected, a Labor government would assume that a decade of experience was worth at least a degree and would scrap the degree requirement for those advisers....
Financial planning
The opposition has said the Government’s financial reforms have caused uncertainty and unnecessary costs for thousands of financial advisers....
Financial planning
If there was an Olympics Games for failure, the implementation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority would be a finalist, according to a Labor MP....
Financial planning
The opposition has backed the recommended two-year review of the bill as it can’t be “set and forget” and the Government’s management of standards reform has been a “trai...
Life/Risk
A Federal Opposition frontbencher has been warned against misinterpreting Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data to suggest that group TPD insurance delivers bet...
Superannuation
The Australian Labor Party might have wanted to get rid of franking credits at the last Federal Election but it is now being suggested that they should be embedded by sup...
Expert Analysis
Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill cautions AMP Limited against its treatment of financial advisers with respect to their buyer of last resort arrangements, arguing that such ...
Financial planning
The financial services bodies have welcomed the extension of the FASEA exam and education standards, which now have the deadline of 1 January, 2022, and 1 January, 2026, ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...