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Financial planning
The finance sector outlook is positive, but change will be an ongoing feature....
Life/Risk
Funds receiving compulsory lost super transfers via the ATO should be required to deliver on insurance, says ASFA....
Superannuation
Those hardest hit by the $100,000 limit on the pension income tax exemption may well be those left behind after the death of an SMSF pensioner, according to Bryce Figot a...
Superannuation
Independent planners have been squeezed out of tendering for corporate superannuation - or so it seems for now. ...
Financial planning
Tumultuous events in Canberra open the question of who will get the Financial Services portfolio....
People & Products
Treasury Group has appointed former Mercer chief investment officer Andrew Howard to take up the same post in its Melbourne office. ...
Superannuation
ASFA has called for an independent review of large SuperStream costs....
Editorial
When ASIC announced it was appealing a Federal Court decision to approve a settlement between former Storm Financial clients and Macquarie Bank Limited, it broke new grou...
Financial planning
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....
Financial planning
It was not a formal valedictory but Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, used an FSC function to thank those involved in the FOFA and financial services policy chan...
Financial planning
FPA points to tertiary qualifications discrepancy in Treasury TASA documents....
Superannuation
After ASIC refused to provide an exemption to corporate super specialists under the FOFA reforms' conflicted remuneration provisions, the Corporate Super Specialist Allia...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....
Financial planning
FPA points to lack of regulatory information as reason for planner unpreparedness for FOFA. ...
Financial planning
The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....
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