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Last call for your say on law change

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
Submissions close at 5pm today on draft laws the Federal Government claims will encourage foreign companies to set up headquarters in Australia. The reforms affect the Controlled Foreign Company and Foreign Accumulation Fund rules. Industry commentators ...

Upside in fixed income: Aberdeen

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
Global demand for fixed income remains but investors are shifting their attention towards higher yielding products, said a leading fund manager. "We're seeing investors begin to look at why yields have reached a low at a core level and that there's ...

ASIC and govt launch MoneySmart.gov.au

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a personal finance website, MoneySmart, offering free financial information and tools. The website is designed to help people when making financial decisions with 26 tools available ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
The Australian share market is heading for its heaviest weekly fall in about nine months, with further falls on Friday due to rising oil prices and disappointing economic data from the United States and China. At 1208 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ...

Super cap breach stings 65,000

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
More than 65,000 Australians have breached their concessional superannuation contribution cap leading to excess tax on their retirement funds, according to Government figures. In a response to a Senate question by Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
The Productivity Commission has defied its critics and recommended Australia establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations ...

SMSFs a blueprint for future super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
From Better Super to Stronger Super and now future super, the Gillard Government endorsed self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as a model for retirement savings in the years to come. Speaking last night at the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association ...

Proposed reforms could hurt insurance levels: AFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has called on Federal Finance Minister Bill Shorten to consider the impact of proposed financial reforms on life insurance levels. Richard Klipin, chief executive, AFA, said research had shown that if adviser ...

ASIC retains key role as fin planning regulator: Shorten

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will retain its role as sole regulator for the financial planning industry but will work with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to maintain standards in tax advice. The Treasury released its ...

AFA Foundation and Future2 raise funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Two financial planning foundations have joined forces for the first time to donate $10,000 to the Friedrich Ataxia Research Association (FARA). The Association of Financial Advisers Foundation (AFA Foundation) and Future2, the Foundation of the Australian ...