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Financial planning
FSC senior adviser, Cecilia Storniolo has pointed to the differences in treatment between accountants and planners on TASA....
Policy & Regulation
AFA chief executive, Brad Fox says advice firms are being placed under pressure by the continuing regulatory unknowns around FOFA....
Financial planning
With ASIC delaying its work on a financial planner training framework, progress on raising the bar on education seems to be stuck in limbo, writes Tim Stewart....
Financial planning
The FPA argues that transitional issues and other factors justify delaying implementation of the Tax Agent Services Act until post-election. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has delayed work on its financial planner training framework while the Future of Financial Advice reforms are being implemented. ...
Financial planning
The finalists for the Money Management/Lonsec 2013 Fund Manager of the Year Awards have been announced, with two new categories added to the list....
Editorial
There would have been many in the Australian accounting community who last week breathed a sigh of relief when they read the documents to be dealt with by the APESB at it...
Financial planning
Financial advisers have echoed concerns by the Australian Lawyers Alliance that super tax changes will impact those who are catastrophically disabled, calling on the FPA ...
Superannuation
A survey of mostly industry fund executives and trustees reveals reluctance to see change to super....
Editorial
The Government’s introduction of the legislation necessary to enshrine the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ coincided with the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, r...
Financial planning
Industry executives are questioning the wisdom behind suggestions that financial planners should move their clients away from investment platforms....
Superannuation
Higher superannuation taxes for upper income earners may not be the only thing contained in the Federal Budget....
People & Products
AMP has appointed SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australian (SPAA) technical director Peter Burgess as head of policy and technical across the institution’s SMSF divi...
Superannuation
Industry concern that Government may impose a threshold as low as $180,000 for its super changes....
Superannuation
Superannuation executives have come together in advocating against further changes to super before the upcoming Federal election....
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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...