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Relaxed super compliance will disadvantage workers; ASFA

... particularly disadvantaged, since this proposal is aimed at lessening an alleged burden on their employers. All employers must by law provide wage slips and group certificates for each employee - it's not exactly onerous to provide notification of super ...

Retail spending to soften over course of year - Costello

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
Treasurer Peter Costello today predicted that retail spending would soften over the course of the financial year as consumption falls away. Handouts in the Budget, particularly a $600 payment per child for around two million families, is thought to ...

Rivkin Financial Services announces board changes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2004
Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) has announced the retirement of Jordan and Shannon Rivkin as directors and said it is changing its share trading activities and its name. In an announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange on Friday night, RFS said directors ...

ASIC scamseek goes online

... identify websites that illegally promote financial schemes and lock down individuals providing investment advice in breach of the law. ASIC said the technology was the result of a joint research project between itself, the Capital Markets Cooperative ...

Aust Senate passes low-income super bill

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2004
Around one million low-income earners will be eligible for superannuation co-contribution payments from the government under new laws passed by parliament on Wednesday. The Australian Democrats yesterday voted with the government in the Senate to pass ...

Labor in the cold on choice

The passing of choice of fund legislation in the Senate yesterday was received as good news by both major industry bodies while at the same time the Federal Labor party said the new laws would do nothing to encourage ethical investments. But the Investment ...

New super laws pass through parliament

... chose not to insist on its proposed amendment to cap the entitlement of the eight most senior ministers. But while the new law will ensure newly elected MP's and senators will now only receive a 9% taxpayer-funded contribution, sitting ministers have ...

ASIC to crack down on soft dollar benefits

... millions of dollars each year to the larger firms. "If advisers accept benefits with the potential to influence their advice, the law requires they clearly disclose these conflicts of interest to clients," Greg Tanzer, ASIC's executive director of consumer ...

HHG closes Towry Law to new business

UK-based HHG has announced it will cease to accept new business for its financial planning operation Towry Law International The former AMP-owned UK-based financial services group said it would close its financial planning operations in the Middle East ...

New laws to extend eligibility for govt super co-payments

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2004
More low income earners will be eligible to receive superannuation co-contribution payments from the government under new laws introduced to parliament today. The legislation is part of a package of government reforms designed to provided extra incentives ...