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US fiduciary rule fight not slowing down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... is no seller's exception to market one's services or products to a retail customer or even to sell a plan to a small business owner," he said. To reinforce his argument, Bentsen said the practice of retail wealth management groups switching investors ...

Government to invest in fintech security

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... for company registration and ASIC's regulatory plans for facilitating crowdsourced equity funding as part of its small business package, all of which points to growing Government support for Australia's nascent financial technology sector. Further to ...

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Dartnall, whose client-base is "very positive" about the "needed" changes, said that the Government should apply its small business concessions to retirees selling down their homes. "If we go back to when people could put $1 million into super in one ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
Improving Australia's tax system will allow greater access for equity capital investment in to local businesses and boost the entrepreneurial potential of the economy according to Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL). ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... (ABS) reported last week that new motor vehicle sales decline by 1.5% in April, car dealers expect the Budget's small business initiatives - mainly allowing the immediate write-off of asset purchases costing up to A$20,000 - to boost sales. And then ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
Business owners are able to increase their life insurance without providing evidence of health via a new product recently launched by AIA Australia. The life insurer's new Business Safeguard Forward Underwriting Benefit (FUB) will allow business owners ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The portrait of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
The Australian stock market is higher, boosted by energy and retail stocks. "The energy sector is certainly the stand-out early in the session on some gains in the oil prices overnight," OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said Woodside Petroleum ...

Budget projections risk being too optimistic, economists warn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Chief economists from major financial institutions have warned that the Government's projected revenue growth included in Budget 2015 risks being too optimistic. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver acknowledged that Treasurer Joe Hockey replaced the focus ...

IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
The 2015 budget's $5.5 billion jobs and small business package will benefit independent financial advice businesses, according to industry commentators. The package includes a 1.5% tax cut for all small business (incorporated or not), a 5% tax discount ...