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Investors in need of greater awareness and access to investment decisions

... Lelliot, managing director of CPT and the present chairman of the National Professional Standards Committee for the Association of Financial Advisers, has said that many investors do not like to feel as though they are being taken completely away from ...

Superannuation not meeting minimum standards: ASFA

... Philippa Smith. Ms Smith made a strong call today for front-end super surcharges to be removed altogether. She said her association is doing its best to enhance the adequacy of retirement savings, minimise the complexities of taxation and jargon in the ...

New super legislation good news for future: AMP

... funding for older Australians as a direct result of this landmark legislation." The Investment and Financial Services Association recently estimated the size of the savings gap for retirement incomes at around $650 billion, arguing that positive action ...

Low income earners can boost retirement nest eggs: super funds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2003
... with the Australian Democrats, who wanted the laws changed to give gay couples equal rights to superannuation. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said the package, which delivers tax cuts for high income earners and extra super ...

ASFA welcomes government's super co-contributions announcement

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has today welcomed the Federal Government's long-awaited co-contributions deal as a welcome and highly positive step towards improved retirement savings. "We are delighted to see that common ...

FPA sheds light on tax advice fees

... tax agents to charge a fee under the Income Tax Assessment Act (ITAA) in section 251 L (1), the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has said that financial planners that provide tax advice to clients do so as part of the financial strategy. ...

AFA hits out on ASIC's FSR license powers

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has sought urgent clarification from Hon Ross Cameron MP, the Minister responsible for the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), and from ASIC, on how consumers can be protected from the consequences of a ...

ASFA strongly argues in favour of a cut in super contributions tax

... the economic wellbeing of Australians and the nation as a whole, than another minor income tax cut, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA) chief executive officer Philippa Smith. "Pressures on future government expenditures ...

EIA says SRIs growing dramatically in Australia

The Ethical Investment Association (EIA) has said that Socially Responsible Investments (SRIs) in Australia have continued to grow dramatically over the past year -rising to $21.3 billion by 30 June 2003. However, Paul Northey, general manager, Navigator ...

New tax amendment to strengthen investment ties with Malaysia: Coonan

... enterprises, dividends, royalties and other income." Malaysia is Australia's third largest trading partner in ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and the nation's 11th largest partner overall. Australia is Malaysia's 12th largest export market ...