legislation

Financial planning

Government introduces professional standards bill

The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, has introduced the bill to mandate professional standards and education into Parliament today....

Financial planning

Financial stress causing substance abuse

Australians were suffering depression, sleepless nights, alcohol and substance abuse from financial stress, according to Acorns Grow Australia. ...

Superannuation

Super changes need fractious Senate support

The Government needs to consult as widely as possible on the practical consequences involved in super reforms, as it faced an uphil battle through a fragmented Senate mak...

Features

What’s the cost of bedding down FOFA? – Adviser Sentiment Part 2

Financial planners talk about what the costs of implementing FOFA have been for their practices even as they contemplate the next suite of changes stemming from tinkering...

Superannuation

Govt urged to upgrade status of unpaid SG entitlements

The Federal Government is being urged to upgrade the status of unpaid superannuation guarantee entitlements and include them in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee regime....

Policy & Regulation

Turnbull slashes red tape with tax overhaul

New legislation introduced by the Turnbull Government yesterday has targeted the removal of a competitive tax advantage for overseas firms amid a push for a modernisation...

Features

Laying down the law – legislation in limbo: SMSFs

Malavika Santhebennur looks at what legislative changes the SMSF sector can expect in 2016 and what remains in limbo in part two of this feature on SMSFs....

Superannuation

ISA ramps up super pressure on Turnbull

Industry Super Australia wheels out its chairman, former NSW Liberal leader, Peter Collins, to urge the new Prime Minister to review and reset super fund governance chang...