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Financial Services Council tells Productivity Commission the Government's preferred approach on default superannuation funds is based on incorrect information....

Financial planning

The ATO has reconfirmed that interest payments are not an essential feature of a loan, potentially opening the door for zero-interest related party loans to self-managed ...

Superannuation

Submissions to the Productivity Commission the reveal depth of the divide between government and industry on default funds....

Superannuation

Major superannuation funds argue that all the beneficiaries of SuperStream should pay for its implementation....

Superannuation

The Government has been taken to task over failure to deliver on details necessary to appropriately design MySuper products....

Superannuation

Treasury has outlined the details of its administrative penalties regime for trustees of SMSFs, which will apply from 1 July, 2013....

Financial planning

The Opposition says the Government is trying to short-circuit the Productivity Commission by establishing a formal position ahead of its findings....

Financial planning

The Government needs to release details on how grandfathering will apply to MySuper to allow super companies time to fit in with legislation, says CSSA President Douglas ...

Financial planning

Concerns have been raised about the ever-shrinking independent dealer group sector and the potential impacts on the advice provided to clients in the future....

Superannuation

Amid the ATO's confirmation that it will again be focusing on trusts, the Institute of Chartered Accountants has called for a simpler tax regime....

Financial planning

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has lobbied Washington for an intergovernmental agreement to resolve the FATCA debate....

Editorial

With FOFA having passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate, all eyes in the financial services industry will now be turned to ASIC and the consequent shape ...

Financial planning

Dimensional Fund Advisors' Gerard O’Reilly believes the focus of retirement planning should move from savings in the abstract to consumption planning....

Superannuation

Corporate superannuation specialists are warning of an administration minefield amid a lack of clarity on grandfathering arrangements....

Editorial

Given the end of the 2011/12 financial year also represents the start of a 12 to 14-month countdown to the next federal election, the time available for Bill Shorten to m...

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