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Financial planning

Legg Mason moves to attract retail investors and SMSFs by dropping initial investment minimums to $30,000....

Superannuation

New survey confirms strong support for a single regulator approach to superannuation....

Superannuation

Industry funds are aligning with retail – but scale will make competition difficult....

Superannuation

Industry bodies call into question Rice Warner research on costs of SMSFs....

Financial planning

Former AFS adviser Gabriel Nakhl has been permanently banned from providing financial advice after entering into an enforceable undertaking....

Superannuation

SMSF regulation should be handed to APRA instead of the ATO, according to a Super Review/Money Management roundtable....

Superannuation

Two bodies representing industry super funds have called for improvement in the quality of advice provided to clients, questioning some of the drivers behind the growth o...

Financial planning

Adviser sentenced to jail and permanently banned from providing financial services....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...

Policy & Regulation

ATO confirms to IPA conference that it intends reviewing around 11,000 SMSFs....

Superannuation

ASIC wants investors to be better informed before establishing SMSFs but denies it will pursue prescriptive new disclosure requirements....

Superannuation

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft reinforces the regulator's concerns around SMSF exposure to hybrid securities. ...

Funds management

Recent court case creates uncertainty about GST payments on recently purchased properties, including those insides SMSFs. ...

Superannuation

There is clearly regulatory concern about the activities of property spruikers as they seek to target SMSFs and, as Mike Taylor writes, a clear message needs to be sent. ...

Financial planning

Regulator spends big but earns its keep for Commonwealth...

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