MYSUPER
Policy & Regulation
The divide between Government and Coalition members of the PJC reviewing the FOFA bills means their fate resides with the independents....
Editorial
The Australian financial services industry is facing some serious challenges through 2012 – something which Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden pointe...
Policy & Regulation
Coalition dissents on Parliamentary Joint Committee's FOFA report and argues for the abandoning of financial advice opt-in and for changes to best interests....
Editorial
The Government seems determined to bring on parliamentary debate about the FOFA bills well before the May Budget but, as Mike Taylor reports, Financial Services Minister ...
Financial planning
Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....
Financial planning
Financial Services Council accuses industrial judiciary of abrogating its responsibility to create a transparent default superannuation funds system....
Editorial
Although the process involving the upcoming FOFA reforms commenced a few years ago, the reforms package still looks like an unsolved jigsaw puzzle, writes Pam Roberts....
Superannuation
Mercer has expressed concern that the Government has adopted a tranche approach to its Stronger Super legislation....
Superannuation
ASFA is arguing that superannuation funds need more time to accommodate the changes flowing from MySuper....
Financial planning
The Corporate Superannuation Specialists Association has cited research backing its concerns around the provision of financial advice in MySuper funds....
Superannuation
The Federal Opposition says the Productivity Commission's review of default funds under modern awards need not take all year and that the MySuper legislation should be am...
Superannuation
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia urges changes to the MySuper regime, warning existing proposals may prompt trustees to pursue short-term outcomes....
Policy & Regulation
There is too much crossover between MySuper legislation and Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation for the two to be considered separately, according to the Corpor...
Financial planning
Changes to the delivery of intra-fund financial advice preclude recommendations to consolidate superannuation accounts or move from one fund to another, but still fall sh...
Policy & Regulation
Major platform providers have called for parts of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms to be delayed due to lingering uncertainty with respect to grandfathering ...
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