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Former FPA chair joins Tax Practitioners Board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... in the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (Act). The board's statutory functions include administering the registration of tax agents, BAS agents and tax (financial) advisers; investigating breaches of the Act; and imposing sanctions for non-compliance with ...

Banks to follow NAB's life insurance exit

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... "significant," predicting that "maximum commissions will become the standard default commission across the industry." "Many life agents will moan about the reduction in upfront commissions but smart dealer groups will realise that the higher renewal ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... Some of the fund's latest innovations are tailored at the sector's specific needs. "A lot of our members are real estate agents, but a significant number are property managers and two thirds of our members are females. We need to keep in mind who is ...

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... BOE is close to lift-off unravels all these good developments, he was quick to reassure financial markets and economic agents and households that, "Once rates begin to adjust, we expect for those adjustments to be at a gradual pace and to a limited extent. ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... it's not. May I remind you again that China is a command economy - the Politburo commands, the economy and its economic agents ask "how high"... sir. This is precisely what's happening now. The government has announced measures defending the stock market ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... June - the lowest reading since October 2013. But that's only the US dollar. There too is the unknown reaction of economic agents and financial markets to lift-off when it finally comes. Jack and Jill went up the hill...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... This makes me think, is the Fed's forward guidance that a lift-off is coming soon makes it come later instead as economic agents and the financial markets adjust for the eventuality? Just my two cents.

TASA breach costs business $900,000

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Court of Australia ruled against Peter Kolya and his Canberra-based business HP Kolya because they were not registered tax agents. Between August 2011 and August 2013 the business lodged numerous income tax returns and business activity statements, it ...

Adviser reputation hits all-time low

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... brokers did worse and were ranked at 11%, down from 16% in 2014. They were number 27 in the list, only above real estate agents, advertising people and car salesmen. Australia's best regarded professionals by honesty and ethical standards were nurses ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... which advisers 'churn'," he explained, so it makes sense for the industry to work in tandem with the regulator to identify agents who engage in this practice - which, he argued, "blights the entire sector". To lift professional standards of life risk ...