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Advisers should train to fight tax evasion: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) should train financial advisers on identifying and avoiding cases of tax evasion and money laundering, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said. The FPA general manager of policy ...

Hillross awards advisers amid AMP restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
AMP-owned Hillross has awarded the professionalism of three of its financial advisers through the annual 2013 Hillross Awards Program. Sydney adviser Ian Smith was given the 2013 Hillross Adviser of the Year award and the judging panel highlighted his ...

FPA condemns FoFA fear mongers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has urged planners to "rise above the noise of tired, product-centric arguments" in the early days of the watered-down Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. On 20 December 2013 Assistant Treasurer ...

Government releases FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2013
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos has made public the reforms to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, which include the removal of the opt-in requirement and the streamlining of fee disclosure statements. The amendments are in line ...

FSC asks Son of Wallis Inquiry to focus on export growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) is looking at the Financial System Inquiry as an opportunity to find ways for Australia's financial services to maximise exports and ensure growth. In a submission to the terms of reference of the so-called Son of ...

Advisers "hopeful" to hear FoFA changes before 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
The financial advice sector is hopeful that the government will make public the proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation before the end of the year. "It is a question of timing, but we are hopeful this can be solved before ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will lobby to take the opt-in requirement and other redundancies out of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms as soon as the government issues its proposal to amend the legislation. "Opt-in is redundant ...

FPA expects TASA to require "massive" efforts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) expects the advice industry and the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to go through "a massive matching process" to determine competency requirements for advisers under the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA). FPA chief ...

Government to discuss alternative funding for LISC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
The government has indicated that it may be open to finding other sources of funding to prevent the scrapping of the low income superannuation contribution (LISC). Industry bodies including Industry Super Australia (ISA), the Association of Superannuation ...

Industry bodies call for Government LISC U-turn

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
Industry bodies have called on the Government to reconsider its repeal of the low income superannuation contribution (LISC) in their submissions on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013. The LISC compensates individuals ...