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Industry welcomes grandfathering deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the parliamentary agreement between the Coalition and Labor to fix the unintended consequences of scrapping grandfathering from the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The Financial Planning Association ...

SMEs embracing accounting in the cloud

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to increase expenditure on cloud accounting technology in the near future, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer. A whopping 96% of respondents said they intended ...

MetLife partnership extend group insurance to SMEs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
MetLife Insurance will partner Steadfast, the largest network of general insurance brokers in Australasia, to extend MetLife's group life cover to Australian small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two companies have produced a suite of co-branded ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... Australian Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou, 42 Below founder Geoff Ross and founder and host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. The AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference is focused on ...

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... Australian Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou, 42 Below founder Geoff Ross and founder and host of "The Small Business Big Marketing Show" Tim Reid have been confirmed as speakers. They will be joined by The Body-Brain Performance Institute ...

Northstar joins Chan & Naylor joint venture partnership

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Sydney-based accounting firm Northstar has become the latest to joint venture partner of national accounting and advice firm Chan & Naylor. The deal will see Chan & Naylor take an equity share in the company in return for driving mutual growth. Northstar ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... legislation before the end of the year. Unsurprisingly, Greens spokesperson for consumer affairs, competition policy and small business Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that the FoFA legislation "is aimed at locking into law the dodgy deal that they [the ...

Countplus misses profit guidance

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... statement said. According to the announcement, the company's results were "impacted by the business conditions for the small business sector across the country and the sale of a major poor performing business and the restructuring of another," it said. ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... Forbes magazine, "On Friday night, the PBOC announced some selective easing measures designed to encourage loans to small business and the agriculture sector. The move is expected to help lower funding costs for small firms and farmers even though real ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... on Monetary Policy and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases June housing finance figures. The National Small Business Summit is on in Melbourne. In equities news, News Corp and REA Group post full year results. In Australia, the market on Thursday ...