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Superannuation
The ATO has been warned some superannuation funds will struggle to be ready to meet changes in rollover requirements....
Financial planning
The Australian financial services system is in danger of being unable to comply with the new foreign tax compliance system proposed by the United States, according to the...
Superannuation
A study currently being conducted by the University of Adelaide may allow both current and prospective SMSF trustees to make greater cost comparisons, according to Plaza ...
Superannuation
Superannuation funds need to consider being named on company share registers to give their members more transparency, according to chief executive of the Australasian Inv...
Superannuation
Figures from ASFA's Retirement Standard have shown costs for a comfortable retirement and modest retirement vary greatly and are largely affected by costs for leisure goo...
Financial planning
The amount Australians are prepared to pay for financial advice has slipped over the past year, with the gap between expected and actual cost of advice widening....
Financial planning
The Government’s meddling with superannuation has earned the ire of a broad cross section of the financial services industry....
Financial planning
The Government has confirmed the degree to which the financial services industry will be slugged to deliver on elements of its Stronger Super levy....
Superannuation
Cbus' 2012 annual report has announced the superannuation fund's new standards for disclosure, two months after the Financial Services Council announced plans for members...
Editorial
If, as is being widely speculated, the Federal Government uses the Federal Budget to once again alter the tax setting around Australia’s superannuation system, the ALP wi...
Superannuation
Financial planners as well as super funds targeting clients have to develop a new holistic model of advice to attract the younger generation of superannuation asset holde...
Superannuation
Superannuation funds "should be as transparent as listed companies", says Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden....
Superannuation
Superannuation funds must ensure they are 'fiduciaries first and marketers second', according to Superannuation Complaints Tribunal chair Jocelyn Furlan....
Financial planning
All financial advice is scaled to some extent, and 'there isn't some form of separation between holistic and scaled', according to ASIC senior executive leader Ged Fitzpa...
Superannuation
Government warned that the costs of tinkering with superannuation could far outweigh the benefits....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...