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Financial planning

Corporate governance ranking agency head Lynn Ralph expresses doubt over APRA superannuation league tables....

Financial planning

Squabbling on the part of groups of financial planners is serving to undermine the broader interests of the financial planning industry, according to the chief executive ...

Financial planning

Guardian Financial Planning head Steve Browning claims intra-fund advice should be termed 'informed guidance' rather than 'advice'....

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has claimed the Australian Taxation Office may be claiming more than it actually costs to run the Lost Members Regist...

Superannuation

JEFFREY SCOTT considers which side of the super fence to set up income protection insurance....

Financial planning

The Federal Government's move to allow superannuation funds to provide advice to members has served to unite the financial planning industry in voicing its opposition....

Financial planning

Voluntary contributions to super have all but dried up in the face of the Federal Government's May Budget and announcements from the interim Henry Report, according to th...

Financial planning

APRA researchers have again used a University of NSW colloquium to canvas some radical ideas....

Financial planning

IFSA is in discussions with both APRA and ASFA on defining the investment parameters of balanced superannuation funds, according to IFSA chief executive Richard Gilbert....

Superannuation

Ryan Krawitz looks at conditions of release relating to temporary residents who depart Australia to access their superannuation benefits, as well as individuals with bene...

Financial planning

New research reveals that axing commissions will not by itself serve to reduce superannuation fees to the level desired by the Federal Government....

Superannuation

New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...

Superannuation

MARTIN MURDEN removes some of the uncertainty surrounding superannuants' eligibility to draw on their super....

Financial planning

APRA has given evidence to a Parliamentary Committee in which it has acknowledged that sub-fund data represents a hole in its prudential radar....

People & Products

A representative from Australia's superannuation industry will sit on the Financial Reporting Council for the first time....

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