Treasurer Wayne Swan has recommended the appointment of Wayne Byres as the next chair of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to the Governor-General. ...

APRA’s Charles Littrell argues the case for political bipartisanship on supporting the financial services regulators....

A negative return close to retirement can be more detrimental to a client’s savings than one at the beginning of their career. Vivek Prabhu from Perpetual explains how to...

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

Super funds which provide advice around tax want exemption from requirement to register as tax agents....

A general consensus has emerged that many dealer groups will have to change commercial models as a result of the new conflicted remuneration rules....

The industry has welcomed a Treasury draft detailing grandfathering and a transition time to 1 July, 2014....

With constant regulatory change impacting on the superannuation sector, financial planners are finding it difficult to focus on clients’ retirement needs, writes Bela Moo...

Kathryn Wardrobe outlines the steps for preparing your fee disclosure statement (FDS)....

Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...

A new survey reveals how slowly financial services regulators are responding to politicians’ questions....

Challenger has announced its Challenger Retirement Fund is the first super fund in Australia to sign up to a SuperStream rollover gateway....

Following "somewhat ambiguous" statements on grandfathering in Consultation Paper 189, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is set to release an up...

Daniel Butler and Nathan Papson note that changing an existing non-reversionary defined benefit pension to be reversionary may give rise to certain issues....