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The Australian Parliament’s primary supervisory watchdog, the Australian National Audit Office, has recommended tightening the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’...
Financial planning
Two executives of a firm that allows superannuation fund members to redeem their super today appeared in the Gold Coast Magistrates Court charged with making false or mis...
Financial planning
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has made a pitch to fund managers and asset consultants that it still regards superannuation as an integral part of its appr...
Superannuation
Draft skill standards for advice on self managed super funds are being eagerly accepted by an industry hoping to avoid further regulation by the Australian Securities and...
Financial planning
Self managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) are gaining popularity as members choose to DIY rather than entrust super fund trustees with their retirement savings, according...
Editorial
Despite headlines to the contrary, not everyone in funds management is raking in the big dollars with senior executives finding the drop in the market and the consolidati...
Financial planning
Many financial planning clients have seen nothing but capital losses on their investments this year. Lisa Bowman investigates how those losses can be offset against capit...
Financial planning
70 per cent of Australian workers will receive a positive return on their superannuation funds for the 2002/03 financial year according to the Association of Superannuati...
Financial planning
Margin lending is not the only way to get into gearing. Philip McLean looks at instalments as an alternative....
Financial planning
Super funds should increase employer awareness of the obligations they’ll face when the new quarterly superannuation guarantee contribution (SGC) regime is introduced on ...
Financial planning
Financial markets provided investors with some respite in March with the median fund manager in the InTech growth survey returning 1.64 per cent over the month....
Financial planning
The concerns raised by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about the use of hedge funds in superannuation could just as easily be levelled at traditiona...
Financial planning
The privacy of clients within superannuation funds is under threat as trustees of super funds will be legally forced to share confidential information regarding clients’ ...
Financial planning
The total value of Australia’s superannuation assets has declined for the second consecutive quarter, as the ongoing uncertainty in the world’s investment markets continu...
Financial planning
Financial advisers are in for a tough time over the next five to ten years, as pension products offered directly through industry superannuation funds take a larger slice...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
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...