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Tax reform calls often about welfare not tax: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2006
Even before the Government's 400 page Tax Inquiry report has been printed, the Treasurer is working hard to manage the expectations coming out of it. In an interview yesterday on SKY, Treasurer Peter Costello said that the real debate is not so much ...

New guide to short and sweet PDS

... issuers will have to re-think the drafting of prospectuses because the regulator is putting an end to the days of 200-plus page documents. "Prospectuses should present a balanced picture of risk and return. Risk disclosure should be specific and not ...

Macquarie leads in project finance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2006
... announced by the Department of Finance last November. Instead, the major T3 roles were handed to UBS, which wrote the 1,100-page scoping study into the sale last year, ABN AMRO and Goldman Sachs JBWere. Macquarie was widely seen as a leading contender ...

FSR changes usher era of less but better compliance

... compliance burden on the industry while also being more consumer-friendly, were finally passed on as law this week. In a 10-page statement from the office of Chris Pearce, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, titled 'Effective Communication ...

Tax page cull the first step: BCA

... questions later' approach, which is the cause of so much unnecessary and overlapping regulation." But Lahey said the tax page cull is just one of many steps the government should undertake to avoid getting to the stage where a regulatory tome such as ...

Income Tax Law to be cut by nearly 30 per cent

Treasurer Peter Costello has announced Government plans to cut the volume of Tax Law by nearly 30 per cent. The announcement is in response to the work of the advisory Board of Taxation in reviewing the tax legislation with a view to cutting it back. ...

Clients push S&P to make ratings simpler

... Hoven, head of S&P's fund ratings team for Australia and New Zealand. For example, S&P will now provide clients with a five-page fund report instead of the 20 to 40-odd page extensive fund manager reports they have issued in the past. And because they ...

FPA releases Good Advice guide

... Advice' guide as part of its ongoing campaign to raise public awareness of the benefits of using a financial adviser. The 16-page booklet contains information on who needs a financial planner, the basic steps to getting advice and what to prepare for ...

ASIC issues guidance on general advice warning and SOAs

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an example Statement of Advice (SOA) and released a proposal to reduce the repetition of advice warning for Australian financial services licensees and their representatives. The ...

New Heron product assists with super fund comparisons

... Advisor has the ability to improve compliance procedures regarding statements of advice (SOA). The product provides a 20 page report advisers can use as their own SOA or as an independent third part report. Furthermore advisers can have their SOAs produced ...