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AFA, FPA yet to commit to FSC life risk agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... been reached on the way forward for risk advice reforms. This follows the report in Financial Standard that Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will issue a final document outlining the measures to improve professional standards for financial advisers ...

Funds management elite tours Asia to seduce investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
Representatives of Australia's top fund managers are visiting Japan and Korea along with Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to promote opportunities in Australia's financial services industry. The delegation includes chief executives and high level ...

Treasury examining ASX monopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Government is considering encouraging competition in equities clearing to break up the ASX's monopoly. Speaking at the 2015 Annual Stockbrokers Conference in Sydney, Frydenberg conceded there had already ...

Government scraps philanthropic donation fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... Minister's Community Business Partnership, which includes Minister for Social Services Scott Morrison and Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, confirmed a number of measures to increase philanthropy in Australia. As part of the package, donors will no ...

Terminally ill granted early access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... superannuation in such cases, following consultation with Breast Cancer Network Australia and other organisations, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. Under the current provision for early access to superannuation, terminally ill patients must ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... about gearing would change the investment pattern of self-managed fund trustees. "We've only just seen the assistant treasurer with something about gearing in SMSFs and what that will be I don't really know," Colley said. "It seems there might be a rule ...

Frydenberg to decide on advice standards in June

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is expected to release a final document outlining the measures to improve professional standards for financial advisers at the end of June. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and over 20 industry and consumer bodies met on April 29th to reach a consensus on lifting professional, ethical and education standards for financial advisers. The roundtable is the first of three and will focus ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the clock is ticking for the industry to implement the recommendations in the Trowbridge report. Alex Burke investigates what that might mean for risk advice. "It is up to the industry now to restore public confidence ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Just three weeks out from the Abbott government's second budget, the Prime Minister and Assistant Treasurer have said there will be no changes to tax policy regarding negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to ...