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Financial planning
The move to require specialist qualifications to give advice on SMSFs could come from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority within two years, according to ...
SMSF
The SMSF Association has strengthened its opposition to any outright ban on limited recourse borrowing arrangements, instead calling for an increase in consumer protectio...
Superannuation
The ‘top ten’ list of default funds doesn’t adequately respond to the issues with multiple accounts or underperforming super funds identified by the Productivity Commissi...
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission has been accused of choosing a political decision on superannuation rather than member best interest....
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission report has missed an opportunity to show how the industry’s pre-tax investment focus might penalise members who retire on after-tax returns....
SMSF
While the Productivity Commission modified its earlier findings to better reflect true SMSF returns in its final report, Class has warned that aspects of its calculations...
Superannuation
The Institute of Public Accountants has called for more consideration of whether the inefficiencies of the superannuation system are due to a lack of marketplace competit...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers has warned that summarily ending grandfathered trailing commissions would create a legal/commercial quagmire which may end up benefi...
SMSF
SuperConcepts has warned that the Productivity Commission’s revision of the minimum viability threshold for SMSFs to $500,000 is misleading, saying a figure of half that ...
Financial planning
Financial advisers have emerged as unwitting casualties of the Productivity Commission’s final report on superannuation competitiveness and efficiency....
Financial planning
With adviser education set to be a continued focus for the industry in the new year, the SMSF Association has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s call for high advice ...
Superannuation
BT Financial Group has welcomed the release of the Productivity Commission’s final report into Australia’s superannuation system....
Superannuation
The financial services industry needs to make it easier for Australians to manager their super and help reduce the risks of unnecessary fees, according to Dixon Advisory....
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council is one of the few industry bodies to welcome the Productivity Commission’s report on superannuation since its public release this morning, ...
Superannuation
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority claims the Productivity Commission has vindicated its approach to superannuation....
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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...