reform

Financial planning

New Zealand to launch financial advice review

New Zealand’s financial regulator is following the footsteps of its Tasman neighbours and proposing to conduct a review on improving the accessibility of financial advice...

Financial planning

New advice direction needs to start now: FSC

The Financial Services Council is hoping the Quality of Advice review will chart the course to end two decades of regulatory encroachment on the advice industry....

Features

Financial planning faces into changing commercial dynamic

Mike Taylor writes that new research and real-time market realities have pointed to the significant changes now confronting financial planners....

Superannuation

Funds cautious on divorce super splits

Superannuation funds have no desire to become compulsory third parties to divorce proceedings....

Policy & Regulation

ALP proposals could hit property market hard

The Labor Party’s proposed reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax could split the property market in two, despite promises from Canberra that the changes would...

Superannuation

Frydenberg rules out SG change

The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has made clear the Government will opt for retirement income certainty rather than the superannuation guarantee recommendations of ...

Superannuation

ASFA claims Grattan attacking ordinary Australians

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has joined the dissent against the Grattan Institute’s retirement report, labelling it “an unprecedented attack on th...

Policy & Regulation

ALA calls for reform against insurers unfairly denying claims

Urgent reform is needed to prevent insurers unfairly denying claims, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance. ...

Superannuation

Is the super system outdated?

The changing structure of the Australian workforce means that the Keating’s superannuation system needs updating to better suit how people work nearly three decades after...

Financial planning

Royal Commission told about financial planning reforms

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has been told that regulatory reform to financial planning is a work i...

Superannuation

Labor proposes to tighten super tax belt

Labor has proposed to tighten super tax concessions on the $100,000 annual cap on non-concessional contributions and other areas, and to close other tax loopholes....

Financial planning

Sentiment up as company directors support tax reform

Sentiment amongst Australia’s company directors has risen to its highest level in two years following the recent appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister....

Superannuation

Independent director quotas a backward step: AIST

Legislating for non-profit superannuation funds’ boards to be made up of one-third independent directors would be a backward step, the AIST believes....